Eight killed as bus skids off bridge

DHAKA: At least eight people were killed and 18 injured when a passenger bus veered off the road and fell into a ditch in Bangladesh’s central Faridpur district on Saturday, a police official said.

FM Nasim, officer in charge of Faridpur’s Kotwali Police station, told local journalists that the accident took place on a highway connecting the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka and southern Khulna divisional town, about 180km south-west of the capital city.

While giving way to a motor cycle, the bus skidded off a bridge before falling into ditch at around 2pm local time. |