Bus-covered van collision kills five

Five people were killed and 26 others injured in a road accident on Bogra-Dhaka highway in Noy Mile area of Shahjahanpur thana of Bogra yesterday afternoon, reports UNB.

Three of the dead were identified as Mithila, 20, daughter of Masud of Ulipur village of Sherpur upazila, Mahi Khatun, 23, daughter of Altaf Hossain of Baroduari village, and Saju, 34, son of Sirajul Islam of Dhangora village of Raiganj upazila of Sirajganj.

The accident took place when a bus collided head-on with a covered van around 4:00pm, leaving the covered van driver dead on the spot and 30 others injured, said Officer-in-Charge of Shahjahanpur Police Station Zia Latiful Islam.

Among the injured, four died on way to Shahid Ziaur Rahman Medical College and Hospital.

Meanwhile, a vegetable trader was killed when a tractor hit his motorbike in Phulbari upazila of Dinajpur yesterday, reports our Dinajpur correspondent. The deceased is Nabiul Islam, 40, of village Razarampur.