Bangladesh: At least seven people killed in Cox’s Bazar road accident

Bangladesh desk:  At least seven people, including two women and a child, were killed in a road accident on Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar Highway on Sunday morning.

The identities of the deceased could not be ascertained immediately.

Chakoria police sub-inspector Omar Faruk told New Age that the accident took place as a Chattogram-bound microbus fell into a roadside ditch after hitting an electric pole on the road in Bhendibazar area of Chakoria upazila in Cox’s Bazar at about 10:00am, leaving two passengers of the vehicle dead on the spot and several others injured.

The injured were taken to different nearby hospitals where they died from their injuries, the police officer said.