DHAKA, Dec. 20 (Xinhua) -- A head-on collision between a bus and a passenger van in Bangladesh's Gopalganj district, some 127 km southwest of capital Dhaka, on Thursday night left 10 people dead and several others injured, a senior police official said.

Monir Hossain, officer-in-charge of a police station in Gopalganj, told Xinhua over mobile phone that "10 passengers were killed on the spot in the head-on collision between the passenger bus and the passenger van."

The road accident that occurred at around 6:00 p.m. local time also left some five passengers injured, he said.

But local media reported injury toll could be as high as 20.

The police official said all the injured were rushed to local hospitals and clinics, adding the cause of the accident is under investigation.