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An Indian citizen was killed and twelve people were injured in a head-on collision between two buses on the Dhaka-Khulna highway at Faltita in Fakirhat upazila of Bagerhat district.
The deceased was identified as Sridhar Ganguly, 45, son of Bheem Ganguli of Birbhum upazila in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Sheikh Nuruzzaman, officer-in-charge of Mollahat Highway Police camp, said the Dhaka-bound ‘Dola Paribahan’ bus plunged into a roadside ditch after colliding head-on with Benapole-bound ‘Rajib Paribahan’ bus, leaving one dead on the spot and 12 others injured.
The injured were taken to different hospitals.
Sridhar Ganguly, an Indian national, came to his ancestral home at Debgram of Kotalipara upazila in Gopalganj district on June 16.
He met with the accident while returning to India.