The accident took place on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in the Upazila's Satahail area around 4 pm Monday, according to Nabiganj Police OC Azizur Rahman. The authorities have so far been able to identify six of the dead as Samirun Begum, 28, her infant daughter Maria Akhter, 2, Halima Begum, 25, Antar Mia, 22, Liza Akhter, 19, Kitab Ali, 30. The injured have been admitted to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital and a few other local hospitals, according to the police. A Sylhet-bound BRTC bus from Cumilla slammed into two autorickshaws travelling in the opposite direction, with all the vehicles falling into a roadside ditch after the collision, said OC Azizur. Some locals along with members of Nabiganj and Sherpur Highway Police and two units of the Nabiganj and Shayestaganj Fire Service recovered the bodies during a two-hour long rescue operation, said Sherpur Highway Police OC Ershadul Haque Bhuiyan.

Source: bd News24 December 07, 2020 12:29 UTC