Cumilla, Jan. 31 -- Two people, including a child, were killed when a bus hit them while they were crossing the road on the Eliotganj-Muradnagar highway in Chandina upazila of Cumilla district on Saturday morning.

The deceased could not be identified immediately, though locals assumed them to be a mother and her son.

Locals said the woman and the five-year-old child had just got down from a local bus when a bus named 'Nilachol' lost control and hit them, killing the woman on the spot and leaving the child critically injured.

The bus then hit a mini covered van, twisting it.

Locals rushed the injured child to a local hospital and later transferred him to Gauripur Health Complex in Daudkandi, where the on-duty doctor declared him dead....