Bus-Truck collision kills 4 Ijtema devotees in Sylhet

Four people were killed and 10 others injured as a bus carrying Biswa Ijtema devotees collided head-on with a truck on Dhaka- Sylhet highway at Lalabazar in  Dakkhin Surma upazila on Monday morning.

Three of the deceased were identified as Abu Bakkar, 50, Akbar Ali, 50, Abdur Zufur, 45.

Khairul Fazal, officer-in-charge of Dakkhin Surma Police Station, said the collision took place when 30 devotees were returning to Sunamganj from Biswa Ijtema ground around 6am in the ‘Balaka Pahibahan’ bus, leaving four people dead on the spot.

Source: unb