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Our Correspondents

Eight people were killed and over 50 others injured as a bus veered off the road into a ditch at Haridaspur in Sadar upazila of Gopalganj yesterday.

Meanwhile, in another accident five people, including a woman were killed and as many injured as a bus crashed into a tempo on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Jamirdia in Bhaluka upazila in Mymensingh yesterday afternoon.

Our Gopalganj Correspondent said, the Khulna-bound overcrowded bus from Dhaka fell into the watery ditch near Haridaspur Bridge at 6:15pm as the driver lost his control over the steering wheel, killing eight, including two children, on the spot, according to the local police.

Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately after the passenger coach crashed in the fatal accident, according to them. Of the injured, three were rushed to

Khulna Medical College Hospital in critical condition while the others to local hospitals.

Meanwhile, our Mymensingh Correspondent said a Dhaka-bound bus crashed onto a Bhaluka-bound tempo at 4:00pm, killing five passengers on the spot and injuring another five.

Of the deceased, three were identified as Salimuddin, 40, Parveen, 27, and Azad, 25. The rest could not be identified immediately, he said.

The injured were admitted to Bhaluka Health Complex from where one Masum, 12, was shifted to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital in critical condition.

Police recovered the bodies but could not seize the bus. A case was filed with the local police station, said the correspondent.