Two people were killed as a picnic bus crashed into a roadside tree on Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway at a location under Lohagara upazila in Chattogram on early Friday.
The deceased are Avijit, 34, and Shakhawat Siddique, 35.
The accident occurred at about 3:00am when the Cox's Bazar-bound picnic bus from the EPZ area of Chattogram hit a roadside tree on the highway, Dohazari Highway Police Station sub-inspector Sumon Rahman said.
The two passengers were crushed under wheels of the bus after falling off the vehicle following the crash, he added.
They were rushed to Upazila Sadar Hospital where doctors declared them dead on arrival.
Police seized the bus, said the SI.
