DHAKA, Dec 28 (Reuters) - At least 25 people were killed and 15 others were injured when a truck in which they were travelling skidded off a highway in Bangladesh on Sunday, police said.

The accident occurred in thick fog. The truck, carrying mostly labourers, crashed into a ditch at Ashiqpur near Tangail district town some 100 km (62 miles) northwest of the capital Dhaka. (Reporting by Nizam Ahmed; Editing by Jerry Norton)

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