At least nine people were killed and 28 others injured in the wee hours
on Monday as a bus lost control and fell off Charavanga bridge at
Tangail's Dhanbarhi area.
Police said the incident took place around 12:30am Monday on the Dhaka-Jamalpur highway.
The injured were admitted to Modhupur Upazila Health Complex and Mymensingh Medical College Hospital. Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
Dhanbarhi police station OC Mizanur Rahman said the Dhaka-Madarganj bus fell into the canal as the driver lost control and hit the bridge's railing.
Hearing a loud bang and scream of the injured, local people came to the scene and started rescue operation. Later, police and Fire Service staff joined them.
Local Union Parishad member Abbas Uddin said they had to cut the bus' windows to get people out from inside the bus. "We found seven corpses there at that time."
Duty doctors at Modhupur Upazila Health Complex declared two more dead after the injured were taken there.
OC Rahman said 12 of the injured were sent to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital. "But we are not sure if any more bodies are there inside the bus as half of it is still under water."
He said the rescue work was continuing and they were trying to get the bus out of the canal.
Police said the incident took place around 12:30am Monday on the Dhaka-Jamalpur highway.
The injured were admitted to Modhupur Upazila Health Complex and Mymensingh Medical College Hospital. Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
Dhanbarhi police station OC Mizanur Rahman said the Dhaka-Madarganj bus fell into the canal as the driver lost control and hit the bridge's railing.
Hearing a loud bang and scream of the injured, local people came to the scene and started rescue operation. Later, police and Fire Service staff joined them.
Local Union Parishad member Abbas Uddin said they had to cut the bus' windows to get people out from inside the bus. "We found seven corpses there at that time."
Duty doctors at Modhupur Upazila Health Complex declared two more dead after the injured were taken there.
OC Rahman said 12 of the injured were sent to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital. "But we are not sure if any more bodies are there inside the bus as half of it is still under water."
He said the rescue work was continuing and they were trying to get the bus out of the canal.