Firefighters extinguished a bus that had met with an accident in Madaripur on March 19, 2023. Police reported that at least 17 people were killed and up to 25 injured after the bus smashed through a highway fence and plunged into a roadside ditch.
According to authorities, the driver lost control at 8:00 a.m. (02:00 GMT) and struck the railing of a recently built major expressway, causing the vehicle to tumble about 30 feet (10 metres) into the ditch. “Seventeen people have died in the accident. The injured were sent to hospitals in the region,” local police chief Masud Alam told AFP after the crash in the southern district of Shibchar.
Road accidents are frequent in Bangladesh due to old, poorly maintained vehicles and roads, as well as inadequately trained drivers. A highway accident monitor noted that a record 9,951 people were killed in road accidents in Bangladesh last year.
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