One of the victim was identified as Shafiuddin, 25, a correspondent of a local daily who was riding a bicycle along the road.

Of the two unidentified bodies, one is a child aged about 5 and the other an adolescent aged around 17.

Police said the accident occurred at about 12:30pm when the Paturia-bound coach fell into a roadside ditch following a collision with a bus coming from the opposite direction.

Of the injured, 25 were admitted to Manikganj Sadar Hospital and later six of them were shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

They are Abdul Majid, 55, Rashida, 28, Zillur Rahman, 20, Shafik Uddin, 45, Golam Hossain, 30, and Kalu Biswas, 40.