Two people were killed and eight others injured when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch at Shialdangi village in Rajbari’s Pangsha upazila in the early hours of Thursday.
The dead were identified as Milon Pramanik, 22, son of Badsha Pramanik and Jalal Uddin Pramanik, 28, son of Shaheb Ali of Bogura district.
Jahangir Alam, officer-in-charge of Rajbari Highway Police, said the accident took place at around 2:00am when a Baliakandi-bound minibus from Bogura fell into the roadside ditch while saving itself from a microbus coming from opposite direction, leaving two dead on the spot and eight others injured, reports UNB.
The injured were taken to a local hospital.
