Dhaka, March 22 -- A man has died and eight others have been injured after a bus overturned and plunged into a roadside pond in Barishal's Gournadi Upazila.

The incident occurred in the Bezhar Station area along the Barishal-Dhaka highway around 10:30pm on Thursday, said Gournadi Highway Police Station chief Golam Rasul Molla.

The dead passenger has been identified as Selim Reza, 42, a native of Jashore's Manirampur Upazila. He was travelling to Barishal to visit his in-laws.

Md Mejbah, another bus passenger who suffered minor injuries, said the Hanif Paribahan bus left Dhaka's Syedabad with 30-35 passengers around 6pm. It was en route to Barishal's Nathullahbad bus terminal.

After overtaking a couple of vehicles, the speeding bus was...