Shawdesh desk:

At least four people were killed and two others injured in an accident on Dhaka-Tangail-Jamalpur highway at Baghil under Dhanbari upazila in Tangail Sunday afternoon.

Identities of deceased people could not be known immediately.

Dhanbari police station officer-in-charge HM Jasimuddin said that the accident took place at about 1:30pm when a Dhaka-bound bus of TS Paribahan reached the spot and hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw.

The accident left two passengers of the auto-rickshaw dead on the spot and four others injured, he said.

The OC said that two of the injured ones were rushed to Madhupur Upazila Health Complex where one died.

The other two were taken to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital but one of them died on way to Mymensingh, he said.

The police officer said that the auto-rickshaw and the bus were taken to the Dhanbari police station.