The deputy high commissioner of Pakistan to Bangladesh and his family members narrowly escaped unhurt after a speeding bus collided head-on with his car in Brahmanbaria on Friday noon, police said.
Akul Chandra Biswas, officer-in-charge (OC) of Sarail Khantihata highway police, said Deputy High Commissioner Qamar Abbas Khokhar along with his wife Rehena Sarwar Khokhar, their son Mohammad Khokhar and daughter Huda Abbas Khokhar were going to Moulvibazar's Srimangal this noon.
At that time, the diplomat was driving the car.
When the vehicle reached the Rampur area of Bijoynagar upazila in Brahmanbaria, a bus of Duranta Paribahan coming from the opposite direction collided with the car.
Although they did not get hurt, the front part of the car was twisted. On information, highway police rushed to the spot and rescued them.
The police detained bus driver Md Saiful Islam, 30, and seized the bus. Later, the deputy high commissioner and his family members left for Moulvibazar in another vehicle.
"A case will be lodged over the incident," added the OC.
Comments from the Pakistan High Commission in Dhaka were not immediately available.
