The workers were constructing a toilet at a school next to the temple in Faridpur’s Madhukhali Upazila
The accident occurred on the Dhaka-Bagura Highway in the Najhirbazar area around 8:30am on Wednesday morning, said Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital Police Outpost SI Abdul Aziz.
Police have yet to identify the dead.
The wounded have been taken to Bagura’s Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital for treatment.
An autorickshaw was headed from Shajahanpur to Sherpur carrying passengers when it collided head-on with an Al Hamra Paribahan bus headed from Dhaka to Rangpur, said SI Aziz.
“One person died on the scene. Two others were declared dead by doctors on-duty once the wounded were taken to the hospital.”