At least four passengers were killed and ten injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on Naogaon-Rajshahi highway in Mahadevpur of Naogaon Friday evening.
A Comilla-bound cow laden truck from Naogaon collided head-on with a passenger bus coming from opposite direction near Bhimpur Cold Storage on the highway around 9:00pm, Saiful Islam, officer-in-charge of Mahadevpur Police Station, told The Daily Star.
Identities of the deceased and injured victims of the road accident were not available, the OC said.
The 10 injured passengers of the bus were rushed to nearby hospitals, the police official added.
Fire fighters were trying to salvage the bus with help of a crane, Abdur Rashid, deputy assistant director of Fire Service and Civil Defence of Rajshahi division said around 11:25pm.
Total number of passengers who were travelling on the bus was also not known.