Four people were dead and three sustained injuries in a head-on collision between a truck and an ambulance at Purba Miapara of Gopalganj Sadar upazila on the Dhaka-Khulna highway around 7am on Thursday.
One of the four victims was identified while filing this report. The identified deceased was Momin, the 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. My truck was carrying four people, I don't know how they're doing."
Officer-in-Charge of Gopalganj Sadar Police Station Md Jabed Masud confirmed the casualties of the accident and the details of what went down.
On information, the police and the 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 said.
