Five members of a family were killed and two others were injured in a head-on collision between bus and a microbus in Chakaria upazila of Cox鈥檚 Bazar district on Wednesday.
Four women and one child are among the deceased but their identities could not be ascertained immediately, police said.
Officer-in-charge Mehedi Hasan of Malumghat Highway Police Station said that the accident took place at about 9:00am on the busy Cox鈥檚 Bazar-Chattogram highway to the south end of Fashiakhali Hasher Dighi Army Camp in Malumghat area under the upazila.
The Chattogram-bound bus of Marsa Paribahan collided with the Cox鈥檚 Bazar-bound microbus, leaving two dead on the spot and five others injured, he said.
The injured were taken to a nearby hospital where physicians declared three dead, the OC said, adding that the rest injured are undergoing treatment at the hospital.
Details of the accident are still awaited, the police officer added.