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Many dead in Bangladesh bus crash Many dead in Bangladesh bus crash
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At least 50 people are feared to have been killed in Bangladesh when a bus packed with passengers crashed in the town of Comilla, police have said. At least 40 people have died after a bus packed with passengers crashed in the town of Comilla in Bangladesh.
The bus veered off the road and caught fire as it tried to overtake another vehicle, a local police official told the Associated Press news agency. The bus veered off the road and caught fire after it tried to overtake another vehicle, about 100km (62 miles) outside the capital, Dhaka.
Witnesses and police said compressed gas cylinders fuelling the bus exploded after it hit an auto rickshaw. The vehicle's fuel cylinder containing compressed natural gas exploded after the crash, engulfing it in flames.
Between 60 and 100 people are reported to have been travelling on the bus. Police say the intensity of the fire has made it difficult to identify remains but there were seven survivors.
Comilla police inspector Mohammed Kamal Uddin told Agence France Presse that only six people had escaped. The BBC's John Sudworth in Dhaka says the bus was travelling from Dhaka to the port city of Chittagong, ahead of a transport blockade in the capital due to start on Sunday.
He said he believed the rest had been burned to death. Police have so far recovered 41 sets of remains from the charred wreckage.
The accident happened on a busy road outside the town of Comilla in eastern Bangladesh. "They're burnt into ashes, so it is difficult to determine how many dead bodies were in the bus," Comilla's Deputy Commissioner, Mohibul Hussein, told the BBC.
Local television reported that 50 to 70 people were on the bus when the accident occurred.