Five persons were killed and three others injured in a head-on collision between a CNG-run auto rickshaw and a bus at Patiya upazila in Chittagong today.

Four of the dead are from the same family.

The incident took place at Monsha Choumuhani area on Chittagong-Cox's Bazar highway around 1:00pm.

The dead were identified as Milton Sen, 24, Rupna Sen, 24 and her son Anik Sen, 7, Kakon Sen, 3, and the CNG-auto rickshaw driver Saiful Islam, reports our Chittagong correspondent.

The three injured passengers are Anik's father Anjan Sen and Kakon's father Kanchan Sen.

The victims were on their way to a relative's home at Banshkhali when their auto-rickshaw collided with a Cox's Bazar-bound bus, Shafiqul Azam, in-charge of Patiya Highway Police Outpost said.

Milton was killed on the spot and Kakon died at the Patiya Upazila Health Complex. The others died at the Chittagong Medical College Hospital.

The injured were admitted to the CMCH, the police official said.

The family hailed from Ram Kingkar Sen's house of Senpara in Kelishahor village of the upazila.