DHAKA, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Nine people, including a six-month-old baby boy, were killed and more than 60 others were injured on Monday afternoon as two buses collided in a fatal accident on Bangladesh's Tangail-Dhaka highway in Mirzapur sub-district, some 90 km northwest of capital Dhaka.

    Police were quoted by private news agency UNB as saying that a Dhaka-bound bus collided with another bus coming from the opposite direction at about 03:30 p.m., leaving five people dead on the spot and injuring 64 others.

    Four of the injured died on the way to hospital.

    "Both the buses were running at abnormal high speed," says a witness of the tragic accident.

    Rash and inept driving is attributed to most road accidents in the South Asian country.

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