10 killed after bus hits tree in Barishal

GBNews24 Desk//

At least 10 passengers of a bus were killed and at least 20 injured when the vehicle hit a roadside tree in Barishal’s Wazirpur upazila early Sunday.

The accident took place around 5 am at Bamrail of the Barishal-Dhaka highway.

The dead could not be identified immediately.

Wazirpur Police Station OC Ali Arshad said the till may rise. The injured were sent to Barishal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital.

The driver of a Bhandaria-bound bus from Dhaka lost control over the steering when it reached the Bamrail area and hit a roadside tree, leaving eight persons including children dead on the spot, OC Ali Arshad said.