Police say as much as 25 folks had been injured after a bus smashed via a freeway fence and plunged right into a roadside ditch.
A minimum of 19 folks have been killed and as much as 25 had been injured in Bangladesh after a bus smashed via a freeway fence and plunged right into a roadside ditch in Bangladesh.
The police mentioned they suspected the motive force misplaced management at 8am (02:00 GMT) on Sunday and hit the railing of a not too long ago constructed main expressway, sending the bus, carrying greater than 40 passengers, tumbling 9 metres (30 toes) into the ditch.
“The dying toll has risen to 19. A minimum of 12 folks had been critically injured. They’ve been despatched to Dhaka Medical Faculty Hospital within the capital,” native police chief Masud Alam instructed AFP information company after the crash within the southern district of Shibchar.
The dying toll may rise additional as a few of the injured passengers are in crucial situation, mentioned Anowar Hossain, police official of Shibchar, the place the crash occurred.
The town is 80km (50 miles) from the capital Dhaka.
Street accidents are frequent in Bangladesh on account of previous and badly maintained autos and roads, in addition to poorly skilled drivers. Deadly highway accidents have been on the rise regardless of the federal government saying it would scale back them by 50 p.c by 2030.
In July final yr, nearly 400 people were killed and practically twice that quantity had been injured in additional than 300 highway accidents within the two weeks across the Eid al-Adha holidays in Bangladesh.
In accordance with the Bangladeshi passengers’ welfare affiliation, a document 9,951 folks had been killed in highway accidents in Bangladesh final yr.
