{"id":48376,"date":"2026-05-25T13:40:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=48376"},"modified":"2026-05-25T13:40:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T07:55:40","slug":"truck-overturns-in-central-bangladesh-killing-at-least-15-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/truck-overturns-in-central-bangladesh-killing-at-least-15-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Truck overturns in central Bangladesh, killing at least 15 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A truck carrying iron rods and extra passengers overturned on a major highway early Monday in central Bangladesh, leaving at least 15 people dead and 10 others injured, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened after the driver lost control around 5 a.m. at Soratoil area in Tangail district, 83 kilometers (52 miles) northwest of the nation&#8217;s capital, Dhaka, said local police chief Fuad Hossain.<\/p>\n<p>Hossain said the truck was carrying hitchhiking passengers and travelling from Dhaka to the northern region as vacationers began traveling ahead of the Islamic festival Eid al-Adha on Thursday. The truck overturned and killed them at the scene, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The official said most of the passengers were day laborers and were traveling to join their families for the festival.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told TV stations that they rushed to the scene after hearing noise and started rescuing passengers who got trapped.<\/p>\n<p>Road accidents kill thousands every year in the nation of more than 170 million people because of lax oversight of traffic rules, bad road conditions and unskilled driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A truck carrying iron rods and extra passengers overturned on a major highway early Monday in central Bangladesh, leaving at least 15 people dead and 10 others injured, police said. The crash happened after the driver lost control around 5 a.m. at Soratoil area in Tangail district, 83 kilometers (52 miles) northwest of the nation&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48378,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48376\/revisions\/48378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}