A bus carrying Ijtema devotees overturned after hitting a tree, leaving at least four people dead and 15 others injured in the district's Kaliganj Upazila on Monday.
Kaliganj police chief Syed Kamruzzaman said the accident occurred around 5am at Jamtola of Raghunathpur area when the bus was heading to Khulna from Tongi.
"Three of the passengers died at the scene while another died after he was taken to Jessore Sadar Hospital," Kamruzzaman told .
Three of the dead have been identified as 65-year old Mufti Abu Jafar of Mokampur village in Khulna's Terkhada upazila, 42-year old Imam of Dighlia Diara Mosque Mufti Alamgir Hossain, and 50-year old Maulana Abdul Kuddus, a teacher of Jakaria Darul Ulum Madrasah in Narail.
"We were on our way back from Tongi after the Ijtema. As the driver was speeding the bus hit a tree suddenly around dawn and overturned," said Ashraf Ali Morol, a resident of Kar Maijhkhana village of Terkhada as he survived.
"All the passengers have been injured up to an extent," he said.
Police and local people started a rescue drive soon after the accident.
The 15 injured have been sent to Jessore Sadar Hospital, Kamruzzaman added.
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