At least 11 people were killed and several others were injured as a microbus caught fire after a head-on collision with a bus on Dhaka-Rajshahi Highway at Katakhali Bazar in Rajshahi on Friday noon.
The deceased include two children, four women and five men. Identities of the victims could not be known immediately.
Six of the injured were sent to a local hospital in a critical state, said Matihar police station duty officer.
Witnesses said that a Dhaka-bound bus of Hanif Paribahan collided head-on with a Rajshahi-bound microbus leaving at least nine people killed on the spot.
After the collision, the microbus caught fire, leaving all inside it dead.
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