SIX killed in bus-tractor head-on collision

Six people including a child were killed and 10 others injured in a collision between a bus and a trolley in Mohodipur Rice Mills area on Gaibandha-Palashbari road under Palashbari upazila of the district early today.

Police said the accident occurred when a Dhaka-bound passengers bus
collided head-on with a trolley, locally known as ‘kakra’ of Habib-Hakim
Food, coming from opposite direction in the area around 12.15 am, leaving
four persons dead on the spot and injuring 12 others.

Being informed, police and firefighters here rescued the injured and sent
them to Palashbari Upazila Health Complex.

A child and a person succumbed to their injuries on way to the hospital. Of
the wounded, two were sent to Rangpur Medical College Hospital in critical
condition.

The drivers and helpers of the vehicles fled the scene, police sources
said.

The identity of the deceased and the injured could not be known immediately
but Salma Khatun, a passenger of the bus, said the passengers were the
inhabitants of Shaghata, Sadullapur and Sadar upazilas of the district.

Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Palashbari thana Mostafizar Rahman said the
bodies of the victims were kept at Gobindaganj Highway Thana and the ill-
fated bus and the trolley were also seized.

A case was filed in this connection.