Two people were killed as a picnic bus crashed into a roadside tree on Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway in Lohagara upazila of Chattogram early Friday.
The deceased were identified as Avijit, 34, and Shakhawat Siddique, 35.
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The accident occurred around 3am when the Cox's Bazar-bound picnic bus from the EPZ area of Chattogram hit a roadside tree on the highway, Sumon Rahman, sub-inspector (SI) of Dohazari Highway Police Station.
The two passengers were crushed under wheels of the bus after falling off the vehicle following the crash, he added.
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They were rushed to Upazila Sadar Hospital where doctors declared them dead on arrival.
Police seized the bus, said the SI.