A truck carrying paddy overturned on a Biman Bangladesh Airlines microbus in the capital on Wednesday, June 26, causing a traffic bottleneck at Russell Square in Dhanmondi around 5 a.m. with no reported casualties by 7:30 am, police had cleared the scene, removing the damaged vehicles.
According to the police, the truck struck the microbus as it was crossing the Russell Square intersection from the Shyamoli-Asadgate direction.
Eyewitnesses and on-duty police reported that a microbus from Biman Bangladesh Airlines was crossing Russell Square junction from Panthpath when it was struck from behind by a truck heading towards Sciencelab from the Shyamoli-Asadgate direction. The collision caused the truck, laden with sacks of paddy, to overturn onto the microbus.
The spilled paddy sacks scattered across the road, further impeding traffic flow. Local residents and police swiftly cleared the paddy from the roadway and subsequently towed both vehicles to Dhanmondi police station. Fortunately, only the drivers were present in the vehicles at the time of the accident, and they escaped unharmed.
