Fifteen people were injured when a passenger bus and a watermelon-laden truck collided head-on on the Dhaka-Barishal highway in Madaripur on Thursday morning. The accident occurred around 6:30 a.m. in the Tatibari area of Sadar upazila. The bus, operated by Bagdad Paribahan, was traveling from Dhaka to Barishal with passengers heading home for the Eid holidays when it crashed with the oncoming truck. Both drivers and several passengers were among the injured, who were taken to Madaripur Sadar Hospital and other nearby facilities.

Following the collision, traffic on the highway was halted for about an hour. Fire service and highway police personnel later cleared the vehicles and restored normal traffic flow. According to the officer-in-charge of the Mostafapur Highway Police Station, the situation has since been brought under control and vehicular movement has returned to normal.