Three people were killed and six others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a pickup van in Chakaria upazila of Cox's Bazar on Saturday morning.
The accident took place around 8:30am in the Aziznagar-12 bridge area on the Chattogram-Cox's Bazar Highway, said Khokon Rudra, sub-inspector of Chiringa highway police outpost.
The deceased —Md Hamid, 32, Jahangir Alam, and Naju Miah, 28 — were the passengers of the pickup van.
The injured have been sent to Chattogram Medical College and Hospital.
Police seized the bus and the pickup van.
Witness Mohammad Osman Gani said the accident happened when the pickup van was trying to overtake a motorcycle.
