UNB, Bagerhat :
At least seven people, including two children, were killed and three others injured in a collision between a microbus and a bus in Taiyab’s Battala area on Khulna-Mawa Highway in Fakirhat upazila on Saturday.
The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
Zahidur Rahman, assistant superintendent of police (ASP) of the district, said the accident took place when a Khulna-bound microbus from Mawa collided with a Madaripur-bound bus from Khulna in the area around 6:15pm, leaving six passengers of the microbus dead on the spot and four others injured.
Among the injured, one died on way to Khulna Medical College Hospital.
The injured were rushed to Fakirhat upazila Health Complex.
Police recovered the bodies and sent those to hospital morgue for autopsy.
