Ambulance loses control to save passerby; 2 killed

The deceased are Khadiza Begum,55, wife of Anwar Hossain Talukder of Baburkhana village, and Mehedi Hassan,17, son of Jalal Mia, of Purba Damura village, in Uzirpur upazila.

Highway police and witnesses said a Dhaka-bound ambulance, carrying a patient, turned turned turtle when the driver tried to save a pedestrian in Simana area on the Dhaka-Khulna highway around 1pm, leaving two dead on the spot.

Highway police members rescued the injured and sent them to Faridpur Medical College Hospital.

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