At least nine people, including two women and a child, were killed and three others injured when a bus rammed a microbus on Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway at Chunati Jaillartek in Lohagara upazila early Thursday.

The identities of the deceased could not be known yet.

The accident took place around 1:15 am when the Cox’s Bazar-bound ‘Relax Paribahan’ from Chattogram hit the microbus coming from the opposite direction, leaving eight people killed on the spot and four others injured, said Anwarul Haque, in-charge of Chunati Police camp.

The injured were taken to Lohagara Upazila Health Complex where doctors declared one dead.