Two people including a van driver were killed as a speeding bus crashed into a van on Natore-Bogura highway on Saturday night.
The deceased were identified as van driver Mozammel Haque, 40, and his passenger Akhtar Hossain, 48, both from Bara Baraihati village in Singra upazila, reports UNB.
Mahabur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Jhalmolia Highway Police Station said the Bogura-bound coach from the southern region collided head-on with the van around 11:30pm at Barurhat on the highway leaving the van smashed and thrown off the road. Firefighters with the help of locals rescued the injured and took them to Natore Sadar Hospital where physicians declared them dead, he said.
Police later seized the bus but the driver and his assistant managed to flee.