Six persons, including four members of a family, were killed in a collision between a passenger bus and a microbus in Mallickpur area under Sadar Upazila of the district this morning.
Police identified the deceased as Dr Shariful Islam, 42, Faruk Hossian, 41, Tabassum, 8, Tanzila 18, Nahid, 45 and Takia 12.
The accident occurred in the area around 6:40 am when a head-on collision between a Dhaka-bound microbus and a Khulna-bound passenger bus coming from opposite directions took place, leaving six persons dead on the spot, said sub-inspector (SI) of Karimpur Highway Police station Sakur Ahmed.
The bodies were in the police station till filling of this report at 11 this morning.
