Five were killed on the spot as a bus skidded of a road into a ditch at Ganghati on the Pabna-Nagarbari Road about 2.15pm on Saturday. Four were rescued injured from inside the bus.
The police and witnesses said that a bus of the Tamanna Paribahan, headed from Sirajganj and Pabna, skidded off the road as it tried to void dashing a rickshaw-van. The water height
of the ditch was about 12 to 15 feet. Some passengers came out of the bus through the window.
The police, fire fighters and the district administrations started rescue operation immediately after the accident. Rescuers dragged out bodies of five who died and rescued four others. All the injured were sent to Pabna Medical College Hospital.
The deceased were Luthfar Rahman, 35, and Sharmin Khatun, 22, of Shalgaria, Golam Mostafa, 45, of Laskarpur in the Pabna municipal area, Abdul Aziz, 55, of Kismatpur in the Pabna district headquarters, and Mohammad Sohel, 25, Dhanuaghat at Fardipur in Pabna.
The state minister for home, Shamsul Haque Tuku, who was in Pabna on an official tour, visited to the spot.
The deputy commissioner, Mostafizur Rahman, the superintendent of the police, Jahangir Hossain Matubbar, and the Santhia upazila nirbahi officer, Abdur Razzak Sarkar, visited the spot.
Local people blocked the road after the accident and vehicles remained stranded on both ends of the road stretch. The police later cleared the road.
Rescue work was going on till the evening.
Source : New Age
