Seven people were killed after a bus hit the CNG-run auto-rickshaw they were aboard on Chittagong-Cox's Bazar highway in Patiya upazila of Chattogram on Monday, said police.
This accident also left six others injured, reports UNB, however, adding that the deceased couldn't be identified immediately.
The accident occurred around 8pm when the bus hit the auto-rickshaw near Bayar Jaluar Dighi on the highway and plunged into a roadside ditch, said Rashedul Islam, officer-in-charge (OC) of Patiya police station.
The accident left five passengers of the auto- rickshaw dead on the spot and eight others injured, he said.
The injured were later rushed to Patiya Health Complex where two of them succumbed to their injuries, the OC added.
Road accidents are common in Bangladesh. At least 2,329 people, including 291 women and 381 children, were killed and 4,361 others injured in 2,159 road accidents across the country in the first half of the current year, says a new report by the Road Safety Foundation.
The road accidents took place on highways, national, inter-district and regional roads between January 1 and June 30 across the country.
