At least two people were killed and five others were injured as a bus of lost control over the steering and crashed into a road island on the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Expressway in Sreenagar, Munshiganj on Friday morning.
According to the witnesses and fire service sources, a Dhaka-bound bus of `Dola Paribahan` lost control and hit the island at around 7.30am in in the Kewatkhali area of Sreenagar, leaving seven people injured.
The injured were taken to the Sreenagar Health Complex, where on duty doctors declared two of them dead.
Mahfuz Riven, in-charge of the Munshiganj Sreenagar Fire Service and Civil Defence, being informed they rushed to the spot and took the seven injured people to the health complex where two were declared dead. Five other injured were send to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for better treatment, he added.
Officer-in-charge of Hasara Highway Police Station Kanchan Kumar Singha said police seized the bus and the traffic movement became normal on the highway now.
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