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Fourteen killed Bangladesh road crash
Aug 14, 2009, 12:31 GMT
Dhaka - At least 14 people were killed and several more hurt in a fatal road accident Friday in Bangladesh's south-eastern Feni district, police said.
A passenger bus plunged into a roadside ditch after hitting a tree on a busy highway at Mohammad Ali Bazaar, 131 kilometres south-east of Dhaka.
Thirteen people died on the spot and 12 others were injured, police said. One of the injured succumbed to his injuries at a local hospital, a police officer at Mohipal highway police said.
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