Dhaka, April 2 -- At least seven people were killed and several others injured when a bus and a microbus collided on the Chattogram-Cox's Bazar highway in Lohagara upazila on Wednesday morning.
Five of the deceased were identified as Md Zahed, Rifat, Nazim, Jihan Hossain Opu, and Siddique, all hailing from Lohagara upazila.
The bus and the microbus collided around 7am in Chunti Jangalia area in the upazila, said Dohazari highway police station's Officer-in-Charge Shuvo Ranjan Chakma, reports UNB.
A witness and one of the bus passengers, who sustained injuries, said the Chattogram-bound bus of Relax Paribahan lost control.
At one stage, the speeding Cox's Bazar-bound microbus crashed into the bus, leaving seven people dead on the spot an...