Picnic bus-laguna collision kills 4 in Cox‍‍`s Bazar

A head-on collision between a bus and a laguna on the Cox‍‍`s Bazar-Chattogram highway in Chakaria upazila of Cox‍‍`s Bazar this morning resulted in four fatalities and at least eight injuries.

Around 8:45 a.m., the accident occurred in the Kalabagan area of Harbang union under Chakaria, according to Sub-inspector Khokon Kanti Rodra, the in-charge of the Chiringa Highway Police Station.

The deceased were identified as Riduan, Abu Bakar, Joynal Abedin and Mohiuddin. The deceased are all from different areas under Harbang union.

The identities of the injured could not be known immediately.

SI Khokon Rodra said that a bus of Zakir Travel, which came to Cox‍‍`s Bazar with picnic-goers, collided head-on with a Chattogram-bound laguna on the Cox’s Bazar-Chattogram highway. On information, police rushed to the spot and recovered the bodies.

The highway police seized the vehicles involved in the collision. 

The bodies were handed over to the families, and the vehicles were taken into the custody of the highway police station, said SI Khokon.