4 killed, 30 hurt in bus crash

Four people were killed and 30 others injured, ten of them seriously, in a road accident on the Dhaka-Rangpur Highway in Mithapukur upazila early yesterday.

Police said the accident occurred at about 4:00am when a Kurigram bound night coach from Dhaka fell into a roadside ditch at Al-faruque, killing four of its passengers on the spot and injuring 30 others.

Two of the dead were identified as Ershadul, 30, and Shahidul, 28. Both hailed from Nageswari under Kurigram district. Identity of the rest two could not be known till the filing of this report at 7:00pm.

The seriously injured, Babu,30, Solaiman,33, Monzurul,35, Nazrul,38, Abu Bakker, 25, Saju, 22, Belal, 21, Moznu, 35, Zoinal Abedin, 60, and Abdul Karim,

Were admitted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital.

A case was filed with Mithapukur Police Station in this connection.