Narsingdi road accident kills 4 picnickers
Four people, including three varsity students, were killed and five others injured in a collision between a bus and a private car on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Shibpur upazila of Narsingdi early Saturday.
The deceased were identified as MBA students Akib Hossain, 27, Jannatul Ferdous and 25, Sadia Akhter, 24, at The Millennium University (TMU) and Sadia's husband Emran Hossain, 35. All of them were passengers of the private car.
Itakhola highway police camp sergeant Jakrul Kabir said, a Sylhet-bound bus of 'Shyamoli Paribahan' collided head-on with a Dhaka-bound private car, carrying picnickers, in front of Kararchar Madina Jute Mills around 2am, leaving three people dead on the spot and six others injured.
Critically injured six were taken to Narsingdi Zila Hospital where another one died.
Among the wounded, four were shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Jakrul added.
