Khantihata Highway Police OC Hossain Sarkar of the district said that the accident took place at 2:30pm on Tuesday on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway in Birpasha village.
The victims were all working at ACI Ltd.
The dead have been identified as Apu, 33, his wife Jhumur, 20, Parash, 32, Rijon, 31, and Hasan Jaman, 32. All of them were residents of Dhaka’s Khilgaon area.
Four injured, including a driver, were sent to Madhabpur Upazila Health Complex in Habiganj.
They hired a microbus to visit Sylhet and ran into the accident, OC Hossain Sarkar said.
