Seven people were killed and six others injured as a bus hit their CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Chittagong-Cox's Bazar highway in Patiya upazila of Chattogram on Monday, said police.
The identities of the deceased couldn't be known 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.
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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.