Two people were killed and five others were injured as a microbus collided head-on with a passenger bus on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Burichang upazila of Cumilla on Saturday morning.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Mainamati Crossing Highway Police Station said identities of the deceased and injured could not be known immediately. The OC said a Dhaka-bound microbus coming from the opposite direction collided head-on with a Star Line transport bus bound to Feni around 9:30 am in Korpai area of Burichang upazila.
Driver of the microbus and a female passenger died on the spot while five other injured passengers of the microbus were taken to Cumilla Medical College Hospital. Transport movement on a lane of the highway has been suspended for an hour following the road accident. Fire brigade and highway police jointly conducted the rescue operation.