Chittagong: Six people including a child were killed as two buses collided head-on on Chittagong-Cox’s Bazar Highway in Lohagara upazila in Chittagong on Friday afternoon.

Around 20 people were injured during the accident.

Identities of the injured could not be known immediately.

The Dohazari Highway Police Officer-in-charge Bimol Chandra Bhowmik said a Shah Amin Paribahan bus from Cox’s Bazar and another local bus from the opposite direction collided near Chunti area of Lohagara at about 12:30pm and left three passengers died on the spot.

Later, police recovered and took 23 injured passengers to Lohagara Upazila Health Complex, where doctors declared three more people dead.