Three people, including a seven-day-old child, were killed and four others injured in a collision between a bus and a microbus in Taraganj upazila of Rangpur early Sunday. Two of the deceased were identified as Banya, 30, and Rafiqul, 40. Read:9 dead, 50 injured as 2 buses collide in Rangpur The accident occurred around 5:30 am when the Nilphamari-bound bus of ‘Bhai Bhai Paribahan’ crashed into the microbus coming from opposite direction near Kharubhaj Bridge, said Mahbub Morshed, officer-in-charge (OC) of Taraganj highway police. The accident left seven members of a family travelling on the microbus seriously injured. The injured were rushed to Rangpur Medical College and Hospital where three of them succumbed to their injuries, said the OC. Read: 5 killed in Rangpur road crash On September 5, nine people were killed and around 50 others injured in a head-on collision between two busses on Rangpur-Dinajpur highway near Kharubhaj Bridge of the upazila.

Overspeed, poor visibility and using the wrong lane are believed to have led to the road accident in which six lives were lost in Faridpur Sadar Upazila’s Kanaipur area on Monday morning.