DHAKA: At least 90 people were injured in separate road accidents in Jhenaidah and Gopalganj districts on Saturday.

Some 50 people were injured in Bishkhali area under sadar upazila of Jhenaidah in the day.

A witness Moniruzzaman said a passenger bus collided head-on with another bus in the area on Jhenaidah-Jessore highway around 3:00pm, leaving 50 passengers of both buses injured.

The injured were rushed to Jhenaidah Sadar Hospital and Kaliganj Upazila Health Complex, he added.

Moreover, 40 people were injured in a head-on collision between a passenger bus and truck on Gopalganj-Tekerhat road in Gopalganj sadar of the district this morning.

Boultali police outpost sub-inspector (SI) Abu Nayeem told banglanews that a Dhaka-bound bus collided head-on with a truck in the area, leaving at least 40 persons, including passengers of the bus and workers of the truck, injured.

Gopalgaj Sadar Hospital residential medical officer Tapan Majumder told banglanews that 31, among the injured, are getting treatment at the hospital.

** 50 injured in Jhenaidah road crash

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