Five people were killed and several others injured in separate road accidents in Daudkandi upazila of Cumilla on Saturday.
Two brick kiln workers were killed as a bus hit a tractor on the Dhaka-Kachua road near Shayestanagar, said Kaushik Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Eliotganj highway police.
The deceased are Borhan, son of Gias Uddin of Lakshmipur village, and Mohammad Ali, son of Syed Ali of Jamalpur Sadar upazila.
In another accident, a Dhaka-bound Anirban Paribahan bus collided with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw near Daulatpur bus stand on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in the same upazila, leaving Dolly Akter, a passenger, dead on the spot.
Other injured passengers and drivers were rushed to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where two more victims - Jiana Akter and Jahanara Begum - died to their injuries.
All the victims of the accident were residents of the nearby Basra village, said sub-inspector Md Helal of Gauripur police investigation centre.
Police seized the bus involved in the accident, he said.