Dhaka, April 2 -- After passing a bend in the road, the driver hit the brakes. The vehicle swerved and slammed into an incoming microbus. Within seconds, another microbus crashed into the damaged microbus from behind.

Members of the Highway Police and Fire Service and Civil Defence provided details of the accident that occurred on the Chattogram-Cox's Bazar Highway in Upazila's Chunti Jangalia area on Wednesday.

As many as 10 people from the microbus have died after the vehicle collided head-on with a Relax Paribahan bus. Seven people died on the spot, according to Shuvoranjan Chakma, chief of Dohazari Highway Police Station.

Four more people injured in the accident were sent to Chattogram Medical College Hospital where a child between...