At least four people, including a woman and a child, were killed and 10 others injured as bus crashed into a roadside tree in Madhabpur area of the district on early Sunday.
The deceased are Merian Aktar, 32, Junayed, 3, Humayun Kabir, 48, and Abdul Rauf Hawladar, 50.
Bhanga Highway Police Station officer-in-charge Md Taimur Islam said that the bus of ‘Sakura Paribahan’ hit the tree at about 3:00am on Dhaka-Barishal Highway in Madhabpur area, leaving two people dead on the spot and 12 others injured.
Two of them succumbed to their injuries at Bhanga Upazila Health Complex, he said and added that the injured were undergoing treatment at the health complex and Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical College Hospital .