Road crash hurts 26 teachers, students in Chittagong

News Desk :
At least 26 teachers and students were injured in a head-on collision between a lorry and a Cox’s Bazar- bound picnic bus on the Chittagong-Cox’s Bazar Highway under Lohagara upazila on Friday.
The bus was going on a tour to Cox’s Bazar with teachers and students of the Political Science
Department of Netrakona Government College, police said. The accident occurred when a bus from “Saukhin Paribahan” collided head-on with a salt-laden lorry in the Chunati area around 5:30am, leaving 26 teachers and students critically injured, said Mohammad Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC) of Dohazari highway police station, reports BSS.
Alauddin Talukder, assistant sub-inspector (SI) of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) police outpost said locals rushed the wounded to CMCH at around 9:30am on Friday.
Among them, three are in serious condition.
Both the vehicles were seized but their drivers managed to flee the scene, police sources added.