At least 7 people, including two children, were killed as a bus crashed into an auto-rickshaw in Chouddagram Upazila in Comilla district on Tuesday evening. The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. Police and locals said an unspecified number of people were also injured in the crash. The injured were rescued and whisked off to Comilla Medical College Hospital and a local hospital. They said that all the deceased were passengers of the auto-rickshaw. Two children were among the deceased, they added. Highway police super (East Zone) Rezaul Karim said the accident happened on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway in Noya Bazar area around 6:19pm, according to a news agency.
Source: The Financial Express
