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Four killed as bus rams auto-rickshaw

Four people were killed as a bus hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Manoharganj upazila of Cumilla district on Saturday morning.

Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.

Locals said a bus of 'Himachal Paribahan' rammed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Natherpetua Puran Bazar area around 10:30am, leaving three passengers of the latter vehicle dead on the spot and one injured.

Later, the injured died on the way to hospital.

Natherpatua Police Outpost in-charge (sub-inspector) Md Zafar Iqbal told Jago News that the bus and the auto-rickshaw were seized but the bus driver managed to flee

Zahid Patwari/SU