Staff Correspondent, Gazipur:

Three university students were killed when a picnic bus was electrocuted in Sreepur, Gazipur. The accident occurred at Udaykhali village in Telihati union of the upazila around 10:30 am on Saturday (November 23).

Deputy Director of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, Jakiul Islam, confirmed this information. He said, three people were brought to the hospital dead. We are yet to know the number of injured. I am going to the emergency department.

It is learnt that on Saturday morning, about 460 students of the Mechanical Engineering Department of the Islamic University of Technology in the Board Bazar area of ​​Gazipur metropolis went to the Matir Maya Eco Resort in Uttar Pelaid village of Telihati union of the upazila in 6 double-decker buses and 3 microbuses of BRTC. From the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway, the buses continued to the resort via rural regional roads to Uttar Pelaid village. The buses were approaching Udaykhali Bazar on the rural road when the BRTC double-decker bus touched a rural electricity cable above the market. There were 60-70 people on the bus at the time. Some of them were injured after being electrocuted. They were then rescued and taken to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital.

Deputy Director of the hospital, Zakiul Islam, said that the deceased Mozammel Hossain Naeem (24), Mostakim Rahman Mahin (22) and Jobair Alam Shakib (22) were brought dead to the emergency department of the hospital. The number of injured could not be confirmed yet.