The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Chittagong

Four persons were killed and four others injured in a road mishap at Shantirhat on Chittagong-Cox's Bazar road here tonight.

Police said, the accident occurred when a Cox's Bazar-bound passenger bus from Chittagong collided head-on with a microbus coming from the opposite direction at Shantirhat in Patiya, causing instantaneous deaths to two persons. Two others died on way to hospital.

Of the dead, three were identified as Sakil, 20, Fahima, 30 and Munir Ahmed, 40. The other one could not be identified. Sakil and Fahim were son and daughter of Haji Abul Mansur of Dohazari under Chandanaish upazila of the district. Police seized two vehicles and filed a case in this regard.