, Oct. 11 -- Three people including a member of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) were killed and 50 others injured in a head-on-collision between a bus and a minibus of Rab on Barisal-Patuakhali-Kuakata highway at Fatullah Bus Stand in Sadar upazila of Patuakhali district on Saturday morning.

The deceased were identified as Piash, 2, Alim, 32, assistant sub-inspector and driver of the vehicle of Rab and Afroza Begum, 35.

Commanding officer of Patuakhali Rab Squadron leader Md Rashedul Islam, said a picnic bus of Rab carrying 13 people was heading towards Kuakata from Barishal.

The accident occurred around 8:30 pm when the bus of 'Dhansiri Paribahan' from Kuakata collided head-on with the picnic bus of Rab, killing one child and 52 others i...