Shawdesh desk:

Two people including a woman, died and four others were injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in the Alalpur area of Mymensingh Sadar upazila on Saturday morning.

The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.

Kotwali Model Police Station officer-in-charge Main Uddin confirmed the news.

According to police and local people, the accident happened at about 11:00am when a Nalitabari-bound bus collided with an auto-rickshaw in front of Alalpur Sabjipara Millers Auto Rice Mill on the Mymensingh-Sherpur road, killing two passengers and injuring four others.

The injured were admitted to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital for treatment.

The bus was seized, but the driver fled the scene, said the OC.

Legal action was under process in this regard, he added.