Seventeen of the 19 victims who were killed in the Madaripur bus accident were identified this afternoon.

The acting deputy director of the district family planning office in Gopalganj was one of 19 people killed after an Emad Paribahan bus fell into a ditch this morning in Madaripur's Shibchar upazila.

The bus of Emad Paribahan that fell into a ditch on the Dhaka-Mawa-Bhanga Expressway this morning, leaving at least 19 dead, has been operating without any fitness clearance for three months..The fitness clearance of the vehicle -- Dhaka Metro Ba-15-3348 -- expired in January this year, so

Madaripur district administration has formed a four-member committee to probe into today's Madaripur accident that left 19 people dead and 24 injured so far