Staff Reporter

A truck loaded with iron rods veered off a road, killing 25 hitchhikers riding in the back and injuring 20 others, in a fatal accident at Kandila near the Tangail town yesterday.
Police said most of the passengers on the truck were traveling home to cast votes in today’s national elections.
Witnesses said the accident occurred at about 9:30 am when the Bogra-bound truck carrying nearly 50 day-labourers and rickshaw-pullers on board from the capital veered off the road.
The sources said 25 people, including three children and a woman, died on the spot while two died on way to the hospital. [Read more]