Online Desk :  At least two persons were killed and five others were injured after a speedy bus and an auto-rickshaw collided head-on in Muksudpur upazila of Gopalganj district on Friday morning. Following the incident, the agitated people of the area chased the bus and set it on fire. During that time, traffic congestion occurred on the both sides of the road. On information police rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control.  Meanwhile, fire fighters doused the fire after 15 minutes.

The deceased were – Ranu Begum,60, wife of Akmal Sheikh ofMoheshpur union in Kashiani upazila, and Hayat Sheikh, 65, son of Abdul Haq of the same union. Sub-inspector of Bhanga Highway police station Md Abu Noman said a Khulna-bound bus of ‘Dola Paribahan’ from Dhaka while overtaking another bus collided head-on with  the auto-rickshaw on Dhaka-Khulna Highway in front of a primary school in Dasherhat area of the upazila, leaving a passenger of the auto-rickshaw dead on the spot and six other injured.

They were taking to the Muksudpur Upazila Health Complex where doctors declared another person dead.