Pushing woman off running bus in Keraniganj: driver, assistant arrested Star Digital Report Star Digital Report
Rab arrested a bus driver and his assistant on charge of pushing a woman with speech impairment off a running bus in Rohitpur Bazar of Keraniganj yesterday.
The arrestees are: Md Sabuz (25), driver of N Mullick Paribahan, and his assistant Md Nahid (19).
They were arrested from South Keraniganj area around 2:00am, Maj Shahrier Ziaur Rahman, second-in-command of Rab-10, told The Daily Star. Rab will hold a briefing on this later in the day.
The woman was pushed off the running bus around 9:30am yesterday after she supposedly failed to pay bus fare.
She could only watch as racing buses crushed her mother
Suraiya Akhter was witness to her mother, Parveen, being crushed between two buses in Gulistan. Traumatised by the incident Akhter and her father broke down in tears at Dhaka Medical College Hospital after Parveen was declared dead. Photo: Collected
Staff Correspondent
Staff Correspondent
A daughter watched her mother being crushed to death between two buses, the drivers of which were competing to get ahead, at an intersection in Gulistan yesterday.
Witnesses said the tragic incident happened around 1:00pm when the deceased, Parveen Begum, 48, and her daughter Suraiya Akhter were crossing the road to catch a Munshiganj-bound bus to return home.
Daughter witnesses mother being crushed between buses in Dhaka’s Gulistan
Suraiya Akhter was witness to her mother, Parveen, being crushed between two buses in Gulistan. Traumatised by the incident Akhter and her father broke down in tears at Dhaka Medical College Hospital after Parveen was declared dead. Photo: Collected Star Digital Report Star Digital Report
A woman was crushed between two buses as the vehicles were competing to make U-turn in Dhaka s Gulistan roundabout this afternoon, witnesses said.
Deceased Parveen Begum (48) arrived in Dhaka from Munshiganj for her daughter s treatment.
The tragic incident happened around 1:00pm when Parveen and her daughter Suraiya Akhter were crossing the road to catch a Munshiganj-bound bus to return home.