Three people were killed and six others were injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a pickup van at Aziznagar under Chakaria  upazila in Cox’s Bazar district on Saturday morning.

The incident happened at about 8:30am at the Aziznagar-12 bridge area on the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway, said Khokon Rudra, sub-inspector of Chiringa Highway Police Outpost.

‘Two people were dead on the spot. The condition of the rest of the passengers is critical. The injured have been sent to Chattogram Medical College Hospital. The bus and the pickup van are in police custody,’ he said.

The deceased are Md Hamid, 32, Jahangir Alam, and Naju Miah, 28, of Karmuhuri Para of the same union. The deceased were passengers of the pickup van.

Witness Mohammad Osman Gani said that the accident happened when the pickup van was trying to overtake a motorcycle.