Savar: Four people, including an army man, were killed and 20 others were injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on the Dhaka-Aricha Highway at Joypura bus stoppage in Dhamrai upazila in the early hours of Friday.

Three of the deceased were are Obaidul Haq, in his seventies, a resident of Senbag in Noakhali, Shamsur Rahman, in his forties, from Ratanpur in Satkhira and Shahidul Islam, who is 24 years old, an army personnel of Rangamati East Bengal Regiment, Bandukchhari in Rangamati.

The Dhamrai police said a Satkhira-bound Saudia Paribahan bus from Chittagong skidded off the road and fell 50 feet deep into a roadside ditch after colliding head-on with a truck coming from the opposite direction at about 1:15am, leaving three people dead on the spot and 21 others injured.

The injured were taken to Dhamrai Upazila Health Complex where doctors declared a woman dead.

The truck driver managed to flee with his vehicle.