Two people riding a motorcycle were killed when they collided with a microbus coming from the opposite direction at Shyamalighat on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Bijoynagar upazila on Friday.
The deceased have been identified as Shipon (22) son of Abdul Khaliq and Maroof alias Emon (21), son of Farid Miya. Both were residents of Chandura village in the upazila.
Akul Chand Biswas, in-charge of Khatihata Highway Police Station, said that a motorcycle and a Noah microbus collided head-on near Shyamalighat, leaving two people on the motorcycle seriously injured.