At least four people were killed and 12 injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Shibganj upazila of Bogra this evening.

The accident took place on Bogra-Rangpur highway around 7:00pm, our Bogra correspondent reports quoting Shamim Hossain, sub-inspector of Bogra Mukamtola police outpost.

A Kurigram-bound passenger bus of Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation from Rajshahi collided head-on with a truck carrying soil, leaving three passengers of the bus and a pedestrian dead on the spot and 12 others injured, the police official added.

The identities of the deceased and injured people could not be known immediately.

Of the injured, one was sent to Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital while three were sent to the Shibganj Upazila Health Complex.