Dhaka, Nov. 5 -- Five members of the same family were killed and two others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a microbus in Chakaria upazila of Cox's Bazar on Wednesday.

The accident took place around 9:00 am on the Cox's Bazar-Chattogram highway in the Malumghat area, said Mehedi Hasan, officer-in-charge of Malumghat Highway Police Station.

OC Mehedi said the Cox's Bazar-bound microbus collided head-on with a bus coming from the opposite direction, leaving two people dead on the spot. Five others, who sustained critical injuries, were taken to a local hospital where doctors pronounced three of them dead.

The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately, the police official said.

The bodies have been kept a...