Bus plunge kills 4 in Kushtia

Four people were killed and 30 injured as a bus plunged into a roadside ditch in Mirpur upazila of Kushtia early today.

The dead are Alam Ali Mondol, 55, president of Zaker Party in Akkelpur upazila unit of Joypurhat, Zahidul Islam, 40, Nur-e-Alam Siddique, 55, and bus driver Parvez Hossain, 34.

All were residents of Keshorepur village in Akkelpur upazila, our Kushtia correspondent reports quoting Kazi Jalal Uddin, officer-in-charge of Mirpur Police Station.

The OC said a bus carrying around 54 people including women and children was heading to Bishwa Zaker Manjil at Atrashi in Sadarpur upazila of Faridpur from Joypurhat to attend annual Urs Sarif.

As the bus reached Dashmail area on Kushtia-Pabna highway around 3:30am, the vehicle fell into a ditch killing four people on the spot, the OC said.

Informed by locals, Mirpur police and firefighting units from Kushtia rushed to the spot and rescued the injured people.