6 killed as bus hits 3 vehicles at toll plaza
Six people of two families were killed when a bus rammed into three other vehicles parked at the toll plaza of Dhaka-Mawa Expressway in South Keraniganj yesterday morning.
The accident, which took place at 11:15am, left four more injured.
A bus of Bepari Paribahan, instead of stopping at the toll plaza, hit a parked car from behind, then a microbus, and a motorcycle, shows CCTV footage.
The three vehicles were badly damaged, and several people were wounded, said Abdul Quader Jilani, officer-in-charge of Hasara highway police station.
Five of them died at Mitford Hospital and another at National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation, popularly known as Pangu Hospital, said police.
The bus was heading to Kuakata.
The deceased were car passengers Amena Akter, 45, her daughters Israt Jahan Imi, 26, and Riha Moni, 11, Israt's two-year-old son Aiyaz Hossain, and motorcycle riders Reshma Aktar, 33, wife of Suman from Maghbazar, and her seven-year-old son Md Abdullah.
The bus staffers managed to flee the scene, OC Jilani said, adding that filing of a case in this connection was underway.
Reshma's father Malik Fakir told The Daily Star said his daughter, along with her husband and child, on a motorcycle was going to attend her sister's wedding in Madaripur.
An eyewitness, Sujan, who was in another car on the other line of the toll plaza at that time, said they saw the bus was coming at a high speed and within a moment it crashed onto the car and two other vehicles.
Dewan Azad Hossain, Srinagar Fire Service Station officer, said they went to the spot after hearing the news of the accident and sent the injured to hospital.

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