Three people were killed and 12 others were injured when a speeding bus crashed into a broken-down truck on Dhaka-Mawa Expressway at Ramerkhola on early Wednesday.
One of the deceased was identified as Hasina Begum, 42, while identities of two other deceased could not be known immediately.
Kanchan Kumar, officer-in-charge of Hashra Highway Police Station, said that the accident took place at about 4:00am when the Dhaka-bound bus of Labiba Paribahan from Kuakata hit a broken-down goods carrying truck from behind on the Dhaka-Mawa Expressway and overturned after hitting the railing — leaving three people dead on the spot and 12 injured.
The injured were taken to different hospitals in Dhaka.
Police seized the bus and the truck but drivers of both the vehicles managed to flee the scene.
