At least four people, including three members of a family, were killed and two others seriously injured in a head-on collision between a car and a BRTC bus in Kuirgam sadar upazila on Thursday morning.
The deceased were identified as Mujibur Rahman, 56, his wife Bilkis Begum, 50, their son Billal Hossain, 26, and the car driver whose name could not be known immediately.
OC (Investigation) of Kurigram Sadar police station Anwarul Islam confirmed the matter.
The OC said that a BRTC bus collided head-on with a Kurigram-bound private car on the Kurigram-Rangpur Highway in Raipur RDRS Bazar area of Kanthalbari Union at about 7:30 am, leaving the driver of the car dead on the spot and five other passengers of the car injured.
The injured were rushed to the Kurigram General Hospital where the on-duty doctors declared Billal Hossain dead. Mujibur Rahman and Bilkis Begum died while undergoing treatment at the hospital, he said.
The condition of one of the other two injured was critical and he was suggested to go Rangpur Medical College Hospital for better treatment, Anwarul Islam added.