At least 10 people were killed and four to five more injured in a collision between a bus and a microbus on the Chittagong-Cox’s Bazar highway in Lohagara upazila of Chittagong on Wednesday morning.
The bus and the microbus collided at around 7am in the Chunti Jangalia area in the upazila, said Dohazari highway police station Officer-in-Charge Shuvo Ranjan Chakma.
A witness and one of the bus passengers who sustained injuries said the driver of the Chittagong-bound bus of Relax Transport had lost control of the vehicle.
“At one stage, the speeding Cox’s Bazar-bound microbus crashed into the bus, leaving seven people dead on the spot and four to five others injured,” he added.
Members from Lohagara fire service and police stations rescued the injured and sent them to the nearby hospitals. Vehicular movement on the busy highway remained suspended when this report was filed.
Liberty News’ local correspondent reports that earlier, on March 31, five people were killed and six others injured in a deadly road accident in the Chunti area.
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