4 killed in Cox’s Bazar road crash

Four people were killed and nine others injured in a head-on collision between two microbuses on Chittagong-Cox’s Bazar highway in Chokoria upazila of Cox’s Bazar this morning.

The deceased were identified as Sahab Uddin, 20, a class XI student of Ukhiya Degee College, Joynul Abedin, 22, Harun-Ur-Rashid, 16, and Ali Akbar, 30, of Ukhiya upazila of the district, our Cox’s Bazar correspondent reports quoting police.

Mohammad Nure Alam, in-charge of Sringa Highway Police, told our correspondent that a microbus collided with another oncoming microbus at Harbang-Goalmara around 6:00am, leaving three passengers of both the vehicles dead on the spot and 10 injured.

The injured were taken to Chokoria Upazila Health Complex and other private hospitals in Sringa. Later, one of them succumbed at the upazila health complex, said the police official.

Meantime, a Cox’s Bazar-bound bus of Shyamoli Paribahan, which was crossing the area at the same time, hit a roadside tree when its driver was trying to save his vehicle from hitting the collided microbuses, leaving several others injured.