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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 on Thursday (6 July).
At the time of filing this report, one of the four victims was identified. The identified deceased was Momin, driver of the ambulance.
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.
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.
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