4 of a family among six killed in a collision between a bus and a microbus in Sadar Upazila of Faridpur on Monday morning.

The accident took place at Mallikpur on Dhaka-Khulna highway around 8:00 am.

Police identified the deceased as Dr Shariful Islam Hadi, his daughter Tabassum, sister-in-law Takia, her daughter Tanzu, his friend sub-inspector Faruk Hossain, hailing from Boalmari upazila, and microbus driver Nahid of Narail.

Shariful’s wife Ribbi was critically injured in the accident that took place around 7am near Karimpur bridge on the Dhaka-Khulna Highway.

Karimpur Highway Police Station OC Saphur Rahman confirming the matter said the passenger bus of Mamun Paribahan was heading towards Jessore from Dhaka. The bus collided head-on with a microbus on the Dhaka-Khulna highway at Mallickpur area, he added.