Four passengers of a microbus were killed and 12 others injured as a bus rammed the vehicle in Patiya upazila of Chattogram this morning.

Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately, our Chattogram staff correspondent reports quoting police.

Inspector ABM Mizanur Rahman, in-charge of Patiya Highway Police Outpost, said Cox’s Bazar-bound bus from Chattogram hit the oncoming microbus on Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway at Bhaiyer Dighi around 8:30am.

Both the vehicles skidded off the road and fell on a roadside paddy field following the accident that left three passengers dead on the spot and 13 others injured, said the police official.

Of the injured, another died on way to Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) while the rests were admitted to the hospital, said Assistant Sub-inspector Alauddin Talukdar of CMCH police outpost. 

The condition of five injured were stated to be critical, ASI Alauddin said.