Four people were killed and 22 others injured as a bus overturned on Cox’s Bazar-Chattogram Highway in Baniarchhora under Chokoria upazila of Cox’s Bazar on Friday night.

Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.

Md Anisur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Chiringa Highway Police, said that the accident took place around 10pm when the ‘Star Line Paribahan’ bus overturned and fell into a roadside ditch.

Four people were killed on the spot.

The injured were taken to the upazila health complex and other local clinics.

Police recovered the bodies and kept them at Harbang Highway Police outpost.

Road accidents claim thousands of lives in Bangladesh every year. Last year, the country saw at least 5,516 road accidents in which 7,855 people were killed, according to Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity.

At least 13,330 others injured in the accidents.