A woman and her baby son, on their way home on Eid vacation, have died, as the bus they were travelling in fell into a roadside ditch at Kishoreganj’s Kuliarchar.
Published : 01 Jul 2016, 02:33 PM
Five more people were injured in the accident at Monohorpur on the Kishoreganj-Bhairab road around 10am on Friday, police said.
Bhairab highway police OC Mizanul Haque identified the deceased as Nadira Aktar, 29, wife of Kamruzzaman of Katiadi, and her eight-month-old son ‘Anas’. Kamruzzaman received minor injuries.
Haque said the bus had fallen into the ditch after the driver lost control. Nadira and Anas died on the spot.
The injured were taken to the Kuliarchar Upazila Health Complex and Bhagalpur Medical College Hospital, he added.
The OC said Fire Service personnel and locals were jointly working to extricate the bus from the ditch.