7 killed in Ctg’s Lohagara road crash

At least seven people were killed and four to five more injured in a collision between a bus and a microbus on Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway in Lohagara upazila of Chattogram on Wednesday morning.

Five of the deceased were identified as Md Zahed, Rifat, Nazim, Jihan Hossain Opu, and Siddique, all hailing from Lohagara upazila.

The bus and the microbus collided around 7am in Chunti Jangalia area in the upazila, said Dohazari highway police station’s Officer-in-Charge Shuvo Ranjan Chakma.

A witness and one of the bus passengers, who sustained injuries, said the Chattogram-bound bus of Relax Paribahan lost control.

At one stage, the speeding Cox’s Bazar-bound microbus crashed into the bus, leaving seven people dead on the spot and four to five others injured, he said.

Members from Lohagara Fire Service and police stations rescued the injured and sent to the nearby hospitals.

The vehicular movement on the busy highway remained suspended as of filing this report around 9:30am.   

Earlier on March 31, five people were killed and six others injured in a deadly road accident in Chunti area.