Five people were dead and four were injured in a head-on collision between a microbus and a battery-run three wheeler on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Siddhirganj upazila of Narayanganj district on Sunday morning, police said.
The deceased have been identified as Md Mamun, 26, Abu Hanif, 25, Nur Uddin, 45, Jamal Mia, 42, and an unidentified person aged 36.
Of the deceased, Hanif was the three-wheeler driver and rest were passengers of the vehicle while identities of the injured could not be known immediately.
Nabir Hossain, officer-in-charge of Kanchpur Highway police station, said the accident happened around 9am when the Dhaka-bound microbus collided head-on with a battery-run auto-rickshaw coming from the opposite direction, in Shimrail area on the west side of Kanchpur bridge. One person died on the spot.
Of the injured, five people were rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) and rest to a local hospital, he said.
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Md Bachhu Mia, in-charge (inspector) of DMCH police outpost, quoting physicians said four people out of the five brought to DMCH succumbed to their injuries while undergoing treatment and one has been undergoing treatment.
Four others have been undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Narayanganj district, he added.