5 killed, 17 injured in road accident
Five people were killed and 17 injured, five of them seriously, when a truck knocked down another truck into a roadside ditch at Nakla on the Jamuna Bridge West Link Road early yesterday.
The dead were identified as Bhulu Mondol, Fakir Mondol, Osman Ali, Dulal Hossain and helper of the truck Selim Miah.
Police said the Bogra-bound truck was coming from Dhaka with day-labourers on board. The driver stopped the vehicle on the spot at about 6.00am to drop a few passengers. "Suddenly another truck sped in and hit it from behind."
Police recovered the bodies. Of the injured, 12 were admitted to Sadar Hospital.
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