Two people, including a truck driver, were killed and eight others were injured as a passenger bus collided head-on with a truck on Dhaka-Tangail highway in Rasulpur of Tangail on Monday morning.
The deceased were identified as Shah Alam Selim, 25, supervisor of bus, son of Azahar Ali, hailing from Telia village in Mirzapur upazila and truck driver Mizanur Rahman Sheikh, 28, son of Nur Islam Sheikh, from Nurullapur village in Morrelganj upazila of Bagerhat.
Matiur Rahman, sub-inspector of Elenga police outpost, confirmed the matter.
He said the North Bengal-bound passenger bus from Dhaka collide with the truck coming from opposite direction in the area this morning, leaving the truck drive and the bus supervisor dead on the spot and eight others injured.Later, the injured were taken to Tangail General Hospital, he added.
