5 killed as lorry rams into stationary bus, passengers in Chattogram

Five people including a woman and a child were killed and four others injured when a lorry rammed into some bus passengers standing on Dhaka-Chattogram highway at Chhoto Kumira in Sitakunda upazila early today (27 October).

Two of the deceased were identified as Ibrahim, 6, from Netrokona, and a woman named Swapna.

Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, an officer at the Fire Service’s Kumira station, said the passengers were travelling from Chattogram to Netrokona.

When the bus faced a mechanical problem, the passengers got off and stood beside the highway, he said.

At that time, the speeding lorry ran crashed into the waiting passengers and then hit the stationary bus, leaving three dead on the spot.

Six injured people were taken to Chattogram Medical College Hospital where two of them later died.