<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">At least nine people were killed and more than 50 others injured in a head-on collision between two buses on Rangpur-Dinajpur highway in Taraganj Upazila of Rangpur early Monday, </span>according<span style="font-size: 1rem;">&nbsp;to media reports.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>The identities of the deceased could not be known yet.</div><div><br></div><div>A bus of Joyana Paribahan collided with a bus of Islam Paribahan near Kharubhaj Bridge around 12:30am amid heavy showers, leaving five people dead and fifty-four others injured, Mahbub Morshed, officer-in-charge of Taraganj Highway Police Station said.</div><div><br></div><div>Fire Service men rescued the injured victims and rushed them to Rangpur Medical College and Hospital where four more people succumbed to their injuries, said the hospital’s emergency unit physician Md Farhaduzzaman.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, the condition of two other injured people was stated to be critical, he added.</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>