<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>At least 17 people including seven children and five women were killed and 35 others injured when a bus plunged into a roadside pond at Chhatrakanda in Sadar upazila of Jhalakathi district on Saturday.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Five of the deceased were identified as Sumaiya, 5, Samad Molla, 60, Tarik, 55, Shahin Molla, 33 and Abdullah, 7 while the identities of the others could not be known immediately.</div><div><br></div><div>The Barishal-bound bus from Bhandaria in Pirojpur district carrying around 70 passengers fell into the pond near Union Parishad office around 9:55 am, leaving 17 people dead and 35 others injured, said Sub-inspector of Sadar Police Station Shakhawat Hossain.</div><div><br></div><div>The driver might have lost control over the steering, he said.</div><div><br></div><div>The injured were taken to Sadar Hospital. According to UNB reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>