NN ONLINE:
Five people were killed and three others injured when a bus plunged into a canal on Laxmipur-Dhaka road in front of Chandraganj Kafil Uddin Degree College on Saturday, police said.
The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
The accident occurred around 8 am when the bus of ‘Ananda Paribahan’ fell into the Rahmatkhali canal as its drive lost control over steering, leaving five people injured, said Mobarak Hossain, officer-in-charge of Chandraganj Highway Police Station.
The injured were taken to a local hospital where the doctors declared two of them dead.
On information, police and local fire service men rushed to the spot and conducted a rescue operation. They also managed to rescue 14 people alive from the canal while the others managed to swim ashore.
Vehicular movement on the Laxmipur-Dhaka regional highway remained suspended for an hour following the accident, creating a long tailback on both sides of the road.
