Faridpur, April 16 -- At least 13 people were dead and several were injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a pickup van on Dhaka-Khulna highway at Sadar upazila in Faridpur district this morning.

Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.

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MD. Hasanuzzaman, officer-in-charge of Faridpur Sadar Kotwali Police Station, said that a Magura-bound bus of Unique Paribahan from Dhaka collided with a Dhaka-bound pickup van. Eleven people died on the spot and two died after being taken to hospital. At least four people were injured in the incident.

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The injured have been admitted to Faridpur Medical College Hospital.

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