Two people were killed and ten others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on Dhaka-Barishal highway at Naupara in Bhanga upazila of Faridpur district on Saturday.

The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.

Helal Uddin; Officer-in-Charge of Bhanga Highway Police, said the accident occurred around 10 am in front of Noupara Livestock office.

According to him, a Dhaka-bound bus from Barishal crashed into a truck coming from opposite direction, leaving truck’s helper killed on the spot and 11 others injured.

The injured were taken to Bhanga Upazila Health Complex where the doctors declared one of them dead. Two dead bodies were kept at the hospital morgue.