Dhaka, Oct. 15 -- Tangail Correspondent

Three people, including a woman, were killed and 12 others injured in a road accident involving a bus and a truck on the Dhaka-Tangail highway in the Baikhola area under Basail upazila on Wednesday afternoon. All the victims were passengers of the bus.

The accident occurred around 2:30 PM. The identities of the deceased and injured could not be confirmed immediately.

According to police and local sources, a passenger bus of Bhai Bhai Paribahan was heading towards Dhaka from Tarakandi in Jamalpur. When the bus reached Baikhola, it tried to overtake a truck moving in the same direction. At that moment, it collided head-on with another rod-laden truck coming from the opposite direction.

One woman d...