A female teacher of Dhaka’s Willes Little Flower School got one of her hands severed in a road accident which took place when their excursion bus overturned at Ghonapara in Sadar upazila on Tuesday.  

The accident on the Dhaka-Khulna highway also left 13 students of the school injured.

Md Monirul Islam, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said over 100 students and several teachers of the school were going to Bangabandhu Mausoleum at Tungipara on a study tour.

When they reached Ghonapara, the bus overturned following a collision with a truck that left 14 of them injured.

One of the hands of Sayeeda Fahima, 35, a teacher of the school, was severed in the accident.

They were first taken to Gopalganj 250-bed General Hospital from where two of them were airlifted to Dhaka for better treatment.