Bangladesh, Aug. 8 -- A total of 16 people were killed and dozens injured in two separate road accidents involving passenger buses in Sylhet and Bogura on Friday, after one bus collided head-on with another while the other veered off the road and crashed into an electric pole.

Nine people were killed and more than 30 others injured when two passenger buses collided head-on in the Dayamir area of Osmaninagar in Sylhet at around 7:30am.

Five of the deceased were identified as Saptam Roy Priyam, 22, son of Uttam Roy of Sobhanighat in Sylhet city; Jaifa, 4, daughter of Jahangir of the South Surma Police Station area; Baul singer Peheli Bhairabi, daughter of Babul Mia of Chandiber in Kishoreganj; Haji Saiful Islam, 50, son of the late Safiu...