Bus-truck collision in Manikganj leaves one killed, 10 injured

At least one person was killed and as many as 10 others were injured in a head-on collision between a passenger bus and a truck in Manikganj’s Ghior upazila on Thursday morning, police said.

The accident took place near Manikganj Road in the Pachuria area of Dhaka-Aricha highway around 6 am, disrupting traffic movement on the high-speed corridor for nearly two hours, reports UNB.

"The bus crashed into the truck at high speed after its driver lost control of the vehicle. The truck driver was killed on the spot in the impact of the accident," a police official said.

The deceased has been identified as Rakib Hossain, son of Yakub Ali of Shibrampur village under Kotwali upazila of Faridpur district, he said. "Firefighters had to be called in to pull the body out of the mangled truck," he said.

All the 10 injured passengers of the bus have been hospitalised, the official said.

Commuters had a harrowing time as the accident triggered nearly a two-hour traffic jam on the Dhaka-Aricha highway with a tailback of 3 km on both its carriageways.

Traffic movement resumed around 8:00am after police brought in cranes to remove the ill-fated vehicles from the road.