The New Nation - Internet Edition

BSS, Rajshahi

Five people including a teenage girl and a woman were killed and seven others injured in an accident at Bhangra of Puthiya upazila of the district yesterday morning.

Witnesses and police said the accident occurred on the Rajshahi-Natore Highway when a passenger bus collided head-on with an `Emma' (human haulier). The dead and injured were in the Baneswar-bound Emma from Rajshahi.

They said three passengers - Sharmin, 13, Monsur Rahman, 45, and Emma driver Shameem, 32, - died on the spot and two others including a woman, Shushmita, 40, at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital.

The identity of another victim could not be known immediately, they said adding the injured were undergoing treatment at the RMCH. Police seized both the vehicles.