Several firefighting units have been dispatched to the factory in the Bayezid Textile area
Police said the mishap took place on the Dhaka-Tangail Highway at Kaliakoir’s Sutrapur.
The bus coming from Dhaka hit the passenger vehicle, locally referred as ‘Leguna’, and threw it off the road, said Gorhai Highway Police OC Humayun Kabir.
“The Leguna’s driver and two female passengers died on the spot. Locals rushed others to the Kaliakoir hospital where doctors declared two more dead,” he said.