Three people were killed and four others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and an ambulance in Madhukhali upazila of Faridpur on Friday afternoon.
The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
Shamim Reza, station officer of Madhukhali Fire Service, said the ambulance was heading towards Magura when it collided with a local bus named Kingfisher coming from Magura in the Arkandi area on the Dhaka-Khulna highway around 2:30pm.
The accident left three passengers of the ambulance dead on the spot and four others injured, he said.
On information, police and fire service personnel rushed to the spot and launched a rescue operation.