At least five people were killed and 15 injured as a bus rammed into two trucks stationed on Dinajpur-Gobindaganj road in Dinajpur's Ghoraghat upazila early today.
One of the deceased was identified as Tamanna Akhter, 24, of Bhulli village in Thakurgaon Sadar upazila while the identities of four other male victims could not be known immediately.
Md Nazmul Haque, officer-in-charge of Ghoraghat Police Station, told over cell phone that police were trying to rescue a mango-laden truck that broke down on a road at Nurjahanpur in Ghoraghat municipality area while a sand-laden truck was parked behind it.
Around 3:45am, a Dhaka-bound bus from Panchagarh first hit the sand-laden truck and then the mango-laden truck, leaving three people dead on the spot and 17 people injured.
Police and firefighters with the help of locals rescued the injured and took them to Ghoraghat Upazila Health Complex where the on-duty doctor declared two of them dead, the OC said.
Seven of the injured are currently undergoing treatment at Ghoraghat Upazila Health Complex while eight others were shifted to Dinajpur and Rangpur medical college hospitals, he added.
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