16 killed as cement-laden truck overturns in Bangladesh

At least 16 people, mostly factory workers and labourers, were killed today when a cement-laden truck they were travelling on while returning home for Eid overturned and fell into a ditch after the driver lost control near the northwestern Bangladeshi city of Rangpur.

"They were travelling on a cement-laden truck...11 of them died instantly and five succumbed to their wounds on the way to or at two hospitals," a police officer told

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