5 killed in Chattogram road accident on Eid day

Five people were killed and at least ten people injured after a bus collided head-on with a mini bus on the day of Eid-ul-Fitr on Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway at Lohagara upazila in Chattogram on Monday (March 31) morning.

The accident happened at around 7:30am on Monday (March 31).

Lohagara Fire Service’s team leader Rakhal Chandra Rudra confirmed the information.

He said that a Cox’s Bazar-bound bus collided head-on with a mini bus at Chunti area, leaving five dead on the scene and ten others injured.

The injured were sent to a hospital nearby.

The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.