Shawdesh desk:

Eight members of a family, including five women and a child, were killed and six others injured as a microbus plunged into a roadside pond in Phulpur upazila of Mymensingh on Tuesday morning.

The identities of the deceased could not be known yet.

Emarat Hossain Gazi, officer-in-charge of Phulpur Police Station, said that the Sherpur-bound microbus carrying 14 passengers skidded off the road and fell into the pond at Basati area at around 7:00am as the driver lost control over the steering.

On information, police and fire service members rushed to the spot and recovered the bodies.

The OC said that the victims were members of the same family.