At least 13 people were killed and several others were injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a pickup truck in central Bangladesh on Tuesday, local media reported.

The road accident happened at around 7:00 a.m. local time (0100 GMT) in Bangladesh's central Faridpur district, some 101 km away from the capital Dhaka, Mohammad Morshed Alam, the district's police chief, told Xinhua.

The cause of the accident is under investigation.