Bus hits parked dump truck in Rangpur’s Mithapukur, one passenger killed and at least 12 injured

A passenger was killed when a passenger bus hit the back of a dump truck parked beside the road at Bairagiganj in Mithapukur upazila of Rangpur, on the Dhaka-Rangpur highway.

The accident happened at around 6am on Wednesday (28 October). At least 12 people on the bus, including three women, were injured in the incident.

The injured were admitted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital.

Moazzem Uddin, officer-in-charge of Rangpur’s Boro Dorga Highway Police Station, confirmed the accident. Police could not give the name of the dead passenger.

Police and local residents said that after Fajr prayers, a soil-filled dump truck was standing in front of a shrine mosque opposite the Shah Amanat petrol pump at Bairagiganj.

At around 6am, a Khan Enterprise passenger bus travelling from Dhaka to Bhurungamari in Kurigram came at high speed and hit the back of the dump truck. One passenger of the bus died on the spot.

After the accident, police, the fire service and local residents jointly rescued the injured from the bus and sent them to Rangpur Medical College Hospital. The body of the dead passenger was taken to Boro Dorga Highway Police Station.

OC Moazzem Uddin said one person died on the spot in the collision between the dump truck and the passenger bus and the injured were sent to hospital. The identity of the deceased had not yet been found.

Traffic on the road was disrupted for some time because of the accident, but it was restored within 30 to 40 minutes, the OC said. He said the legal process was under way.