A man and his two-year-old daughter were killed and five others injured in a head-on collision between a passenger bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Satkania upazila of Chattogram yesterday.
The victims are Delwar, 30, and his daughter Jannat. They were residents of Malihabad in the upazila, said police.
The accident occurred around 7:45pm near Jafar Ahmad Degree College on the Chattogram-Cox's Bazar highway, said Md Nurul Absar, officer-in-charge of Dohazari Highway Police Station.
The victims were travelling in the three-wheeler to attend a fair at the upazila headquarters when it collided head-on with a passenger bus heading towards Chattogram, the OC said.
Following the accident, locals set fire to the bus and blocked the highway, disrupting traffic from 8:00pm to 9:30pm.
When a patrol vehicle from Satkania Police Station went to the spot to bring the situation under control, people vandalised it, leaving a police member injured, Nurul Absar said.
A unit of the Satkania Fire Service went to the scene and brought the fire under control.
Additional police arrived around 9:30pm and cleared the blockade, allowing traffic to resume. Additional police have been deployed at the scene, and legal action will be taken over the incident, the OC added.