3 killed, 23 injured in Thakurgaon road crash

Three people, including a bus driver, were killed and 23 others injured in a road accident in front of Old Danish Hospital on the Panchagarh-Thakurgaon highway in Sadar upazila here on Thursday.

The deceased were identified as driver of one of the buses Babul Miah, 24, and passengers Kamruzzaman Babu, 42, of Panchagarh and Abul Kalam Azad, 36, of Thakurgaon districts.

“The accident took place when a passenger bus hit another passenger bus while overtaking the latter, killing two people on the spot and injuring 24 others at 10:30 am,” Thakurgaon Sadar officer-in-charge Md Ashikur Rahman told BSS.

The injured were rushed to Thakurgaon District Modernised Sadar Hospital.

"One of the injured died on the way to the hospital," the OC said adding that conditions of three of the injured were critical.

Police seized the buses and a case was filed in this connection, he added.