Two brothers and a sister were killed and two others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and an ambulance on Dhaka-Bogra highway in Raiganj upazila of Sirajganj on Monday evening, said police.
The deceased are Mashiur Rahman, 40, his brother Abdul Baten, 38, and their sister Ranu Akter, 22, children of Manik Uddin of Debiganj upazila of Panchagarh.
Identities of the injured could not be known immediately.
SM Badrul Kabir, officer-in-charge of Hatikumrul Highway police station, said the accident occurred around 6pm when the Bogra-bound bus from Dhaka collided with the capital-bound ambulance carrying patients from Panchagarh on the highway in Ghurka area, leaving the three dead on the spot and two others including the ambulance driver injured.
The injured were rushed to the nearby upazila health complex where they are undergoing treatment, he said.
The bodies were taken to the police station and will be handed over to their family after legal procedure, the OC added.