5 killed, 19 injured in B'desh road mishap

Dhaka, Dec 31 (IANS) Four persons were killed on the spot while 20 others were injured after a bus overturned and fell on an auto-rickshaw van on a highway under Ullapara Upazila in Sirajganj district on Friday.The injured persons were rushed to the Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib General Hospital in Sirajganj, where one breathed his last on Friday evening, taking the death toll to five. Lutfar Rahman, officer-in-charge of Hatikumrul Highway Police, told IANS that the bus was on its way to Dhaka from Rajshahi when it lost control near the Goja Bridge at around 10.30 a.m. and hit a battery-run auto-rickshaw van.He said that four passengers travelling in the van, including a woman, were killed on the spot and 20 were others injured, three of them critically, of which one succumbed to his injuries later.
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