Two people, including a van driver, were killed as a speeding bus crashed into a van on Natore-Bogura highway in Natore on Saturday night.
The deceased were identified as van driver Mozammel Haque, 40, and his passenger Akhtar Hossain, 48, both from village Bara Baraihati in Singra upazila.
Mahbubur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Jhalmolia Highway Police Station, said that the Bogura-bound coach from the southern region collided head-on with the van at about 11:30pm at Barurhat on the highway, leaving the van smashed and thrown off the road.
Firefighters, with the help of locals, rescued the injured and took them to Natore Sadar Hospital where physicians declared them dead, he said.
Police later seized the bus but the driver and his assistant managed to flee.
