Three people including a woman were killed and 10 others injured as a speeding bus hit a stationary truck on the Bangabandhu Expressway at Ramerkhola under Sirajdikhan upazila of the district on Wednesday morning.

Hasara Highway police station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Kanchan Kumar Singh confirmed the matter. 

The accident took place in the area around 4am when a Dhaka-bound passenger bus of 'Labiba Paribahan' from Kuakata hit the truck from behind and overturned, leaving its three passengers dead on the spot and 10 others injured, police sources said. 

One of the deceased was identified as Hasina Begum, 42, while the identities of two others could not be known. The injured were sent to different hospitals.
 
Police seized the bus and the truck but drivers of both vehicles managed to flee away.

BDST: 1354 HRS, SEP 06, 2023
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