Bus crash in Bangladesh kills at least 19

• Toll to rise additional as a few of passengers in essential situation, says police.
• “Bus carrying greater than 40 passengers fell about 9 metres roadside ditch.”
• Reason for the accident beneath investigation, says police.

DHAKA: A dashing bus veered off a significant expressway in central Bangladesh and plunged right into a ditch, killing at the least 19 individuals and injuring dozens, police stated.

The dying toll might rise additional as a number of the injured passengers are in essential situation, stated Anowar Hossain, a police official of Shibchar, the place the crash occurred. Town is 80 km away from the capital Dhaka.

The bus, carrying greater than 40 passengers, fell about 9 metres (30 ft) right into a roadside ditch after breaking by way of the railing of the newly-built Padma river bridge expressway, Hossain stated.

The motive force, who was killed, appeared to have misplaced management of the automobile after the tyre of the bus burst, he stated, including that the reason for the accident was beneath investigation.

Street accidents are frequent in Bangladesh, usually blamed on reckless driving, previous automobiles and poor security guidelines, and killing 1000’s every year.

In 2018, a sequence of large pupil protests, sparked by the dying of two youngsters, compelled Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s authorities to approve elevating the utmost jail time to 5 years from three for inflicting dying by rash driving.