Two people were killed and another was injured as a bus crushed them while they were waiting for transport at Dhamrai bus stand on the Dhaka-Aricha highway in Dhamrai upazila in Dhaka on Thursday morning.
The deceased were Md Rubel Parvej, 40, hailed from Mirzapur Thana in Tangail district, and Md Abdul Mannan, 42, resident in Shivalaya Upazila in Manikganj district.
Quoting eyewitnesses, police said the three were waiting for transport on a dedicated lane of the highway when two ‘Selfie Paribahan’ buses tried to overtake each other, resulting in casualties.
The injured person was brought to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital in Dhaka for treatment.
Savar Highway police station Officer-in-Charge Sheikh Abul Hasan said the police managed to seize one of the vehicles, but its driver and his assistant fled the area.
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