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Three dead, 10 injured as two buses collide head-on in Rangpur

| Updated: January 10, 2023 16:20:27


Three dead, 10 injured as two buses collide head-on in Rangpur

Three people were killed and at least 10 were injured in a head-on collision between two buses in Rangpur's Taraganj upazila this morning.

The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.

The accident occurred in Doalipara area of the Rangpur-Dinajpur highway around 7:45 am, said Mostafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Taraganj police station, reports UNB.

The injured were admitted to the Rangpur Medical College Hospital.

According to the police, a Rangpur-bound bus of Tripti Paribahan from Saidpur collided head-on with another bus, of Saimon Exclusive Paribahan, coming from the opposite direction in Doalipara area -- leaving two dead on the spot and 10 injured. "Another person died at the hospital while undergoing treatment there," the OC said.

The bodies have been kept in the hospital morgue for autopsies, added the OC.

 

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