Three passengers of a microbus were killed and eight others injured as a bus rammed the vehicle in Patiya upazila of Chattogram this morning.
Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately, our Chattogram staff correspondent reports quoting police.
Inspector ABM Mizanur Rahman, in-charge of Patiya Highway Police Outpost, said Cox’s bazar-bound bus from Chattogram hit the oncoming microbus on Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway at bhaiyer Dighi around 8:30am.
Both the vehicles skidded off the road and fell on a roadside paddy field following the accident that left three passengers dead on the spot, said the OC.
The injured were admitted to Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) and condition of five of them were stated to be critical, said Assistant Sub-inspector Alauddin Talukdar of CMCH police outpost.
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