Our Correspondent :
Two people were killed and five others injured as a microbus collided head-on with a passenger bus on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Burichang upazila of the district 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.
Two people were killed and five others injured as a microbus collided head-on with a passenger bus on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Burichang upazila of the district 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.
