Two people, including a woman, were killed and five others injured as a microbus collided head-on with a bus on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway at Korpai area of Burichang upazila in Cumilla on Saturday morning.

The identities of the deceased could not be known yet.

A bus of ‘Starline Paribahan’ collided with a bus and a truck coming from the opposite direction around 9:30 am, leaving two people including the microbus driver dead on the spot and five others injured, said Officer-in-Charge of Maynamati crossing highway thana Shafayat Hossain.

Police and fire brigade workers recovered the bodies and sent the injured people to Cumilla Medical College Hospital.

A two-kilometer tailback was created on both sides of the highway following the accident, said the OC.