10 killed in Mymensingh road accident

At least 10 people including three women and three children were killed when a truck laden with cement overturned on the under-construction four-lane Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway at Bhaluka upazila in Mymensingh early Friday.

Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.

The accident took place at Meherapur around 4:00am when the truck fell into a pothole and subsequently overturned on the under-construction road, said Md Abul Khayer, sub-inspector of Bharadoba highway police camp.

The Jamalpur-bound truck from Dhaka was carrying 12 people and of them nine died on the spot as the heavy cement bags crumbled on them, the police official said.

One got injured critically and died later at Bhaluka Upazila Health Complex, he said.

Two others also received minor injuries and took primary treatment at the health complex.

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