Sirajganj Bus-Truck Collision Kills 4 Madrassah Students

At least four students of madrassah were killed and 16 others wounded early today in a head-on crash between a bus and a truck at Talukdar Bazar in Kamarkhand Upazila.

The victims were — Yasin Ali, 23, Khaled Hasan, 21, Imran Hossain, 14, and Elias Hossain, 22. All of them were students of Islami Madrassah in the city’s Tejgaon.

Shaheed Alam, the officer in charge of Bangabandhu Bridge Paschim Police Station, said that the students of the madrassah were returning from a picnic in Naogaon to Dhaka.

The accident happened when their bus collided with a truck on Bangabandhu Bridge Paschim connecting highway, leaving Yasin, Khaled, and Imran dead on the spot and 17 others wounded at approximately 2:30 a.m.

Police have recovered the bodies and sent the wounded to Bangamata Sheik Fazilatunnesa Mujib 250-Bed General Hospital.

Elias died from his injuries while being taken to Dhaka for better treatment, the OC said.

Police seized the bus and truck but their drivers managed to escape, the OC added.