Four people died after a bus hit a parked rickshaw-van on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Gazipur this morning.
The deceased are rickshaw-van puller Borhan (40), its passenger and fish trader Younus (35), pedestrian Shohrab (32), and another unidentified man, reports our correspondent quoting Alamgir Hossain Shimul, deputy commissioner (Traffic Division) of Gazipur Metropolitan Police.
A Mymensingh-bound speeding bus of Bashumoti Paribahan hit the vehicle near Chandana Chowrasta area around 8:30am, leaving the four people dead on the spot, the police official said.
Police seized the bus. However, the driver managed to flee, Alamgir added.
