Five members of a family were killed and two others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a microbus in Chakaria upazila of Cox's Bazar today.

Four women and one child are among the deceased, but their identities could not be ascertained immediately, police said.

Officer-in-Charge Mehedi Hasan of Malumghat Highway Police Station said the accident occurred around 9:00am on the Cox's Bazar-Chattogram highway, to the south end of Fashiakhali Hasher Dighi Army Camp in the Malumghat area under the upazila.

The Chattogram-bound bus of "Marsa Paribahan" collided with the Cox's Bazar-bound microbus, leaving two people dead on the spot and five others injured, he said.

The injured were taken to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared three dead, the OC said, adding that the rest of the injured are undergoing treatment at the hospital.

Details of the accident are still awaited, the police officer added.