Three people, including a seven-day-old child, were killed and four others injured in a collision between a bus and a microbus in Taraganj upazila of Rangpur early Sunday.
Two of the deceased were identified as Banya, 30, and Rafiqul, 40.
The accident occurred around 5:30 am when the Nilphamari-bound bus of ‘Bhai Bhai Paribahan’ crashed into the microbus coming from opposite direction near Kharubhaj Bridge, said Mahbub Morshed, officer-in-charge (OC) of Taraganj highway police.
The accident left seven members of a family travelling on the microbus seriously injured. The injured were rushed to Rangpur Medical College and Hospital where three of them succumbed to their injuries, said the OC.
On September 5, nine people were killed and around 50 others injured in a head-on collision between two busses on Rangpur-Dinajpur highway near Kharubhaj Bridge of the upazila.
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