Overview
- The truck overturned early Monday around 5 a.m. in the Soratoil area of Tangail district, about 83 kilometers northwest of Dhaka, leaving at least 15 people dead and 10 injured, local police said.
- Police attributed the crash to the driver losing control of a vehicle that was carrying iron rods and numerous hitchhiking passengers who were travelling ahead of the Eid al-Adha holiday.
- Witnesses and officers said many of the victims were day labourers traveling home for the festival and that some passengers were crushed beneath the cargo and wheels, with identities not yet confirmed.
- Authorities are handling the scene and casualties while no formal forensic or investigative findings have been released beyond the police account of driver error.
- Road safety experts point to weak enforcement, poor road conditions and risky passenger practices such as informal hitchhiking as recurring causes of high road deaths in Bangladesh, a problem that this crash underscores.