Four people were dead and three sustained injuries in a head-on collision between a truck and an ambulance at Purba Miapara of Gopalganj Sadaru pazila on the Dhaka-Khulna highway around 7 am today.
At the time of filing this report, one of the four victims was identified. The identified deceased was Momin, driver of the ambulance.
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Injured truck driver Md Ali said, "I left Dhaka, and when I reached Gopalganj, suddenly I saw an ambulance coming from the wrong side at a fast pace. I had a total of four people on my truck; I don’t know how they’re doing.”
Officer-in-Charge of Gopalganj Sadar Police Station Md Jabed Masud said the accident occurred while a Dhaka-bound ambulance collided head-on with a truck coming from the opposite direction at Purba Miapara area of Gopalganj Sadar on Dhaka-Khulna highway, leaving three people dead on the spot and four injured.
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On information, police and fire service personnel rushed to the spot and took the injured to the Gopalganj 250-bed General Hospital, where the ambulance driver succumbed to his injuries, the officer added.