13 workers killed as truck overturns in Cumilla

Cumilla Correspondent: At least 13 workers were killed as a coal-laden truck overturned early Friday.

The accident took place around 5.30am on Dhaka-Chattogram highway at Narayanpur in Chouddagram upazila.

Mahfuz Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Chouddagram Police Station, confirmed the matter.

He said the truck overturned on the labourers when they were uploading bricks from a kiln, leaving 12 dead on the spot.

Another died at Chouddagram Upazila Health Complex.


risingbd/ Cumilla/Jan 25, 2019/Jahangir/Mukul