Dhaka, July 16 -- Two people were killed after an ambulance carrying a body collided with bus at Saradangi area under Ataikula upazila on Dhaka-Pabna highway in Pabna on Thursday morning.

The deceased were identified as Bulu Khatun, 35, a relative of the deceased whose body was being transported in the ambulance, and Raj Sheikh, 30, the ambulance driver.

Madhpur Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mahbubur Rahman said the ambulance was returning to Sathia in Pabna with the body of a girl from Rajshahi Medical College Hospital and it crashed into the Pabna Express bus coming from the opposite direction around 6 am.

Several other people were injured in the accident and admitted to hospital.

Police recovered the two bodies along with t...