An 18-year-old hotel employee was killed and two others were injured when a passenger bus collided head-on with a motorcycle on the Joypurhat-Hili road in Joypurhat Sadar upazila on Thursday morning.
Enraged by the fatal crash, a local mob vandalized the bus and set it on fire.
The deceased was identified as Ashik, 18, son of Emran Hossain from Hatigara village in Joypurhat Sadar upazila.
The injured are Nayeem, 22, son of Amjad Hossain, and Kawsar Hossain, 16, son of Jewel Hossain of Joypurhat municipality. They were admitted to the 400-bed Joypurhat General Hospital.
According to police and locals, the accident occurred around 10:00am at Kashiabari area when Ashik, along with his two associates, was riding the motorcycle toward his workplace in Joypurhat town. A Dinajpur-bound passenger bus collided head-on with their motorcycle.
The driver and helper of the bus fled the scene immediately after the collision.
Meanwhile, enraged locals vandalized the bus and set it on fire following the incident.
Later, Fire Service personnel arrived and extinguished the fire on the bus.
Officer-in-Charge Noor Alam Siddiqui of Joypurhat Sadar Police Station, said the body was sent to the hospital morgue for an autopsy and legal action is being processed.