Bus helpers push man to death
Following a scuffle over fare, a bus conductor and helper allegedly pushed a passenger out of the vehicle causing him to get crushed under the wheels of the very bus at Motijheel yesterday.
The victim was identified as Akbar Ali, 45, a driver by profession.
“The man [Akbar] had a quarrel with the bus conductor over the fare which turned into a scuffle. Then, he talked to someone over the phone and asked someone to come to Shapla Chattar area," said Kamal Hossain, who was on the bus.
"Sensing there could be problems ahead, the bus driver deviated from the route at Ittefaq intersection and went on a side road which led to Dainik Bangla intersection. As soon as the bus reached near Jiban Bima Bhaban, Akbar asked to be dropped off there."
"The driver slowed the bus a little bit. The conductor and the helper of the bus then pushed him out when he was trying to get off. Losing balance, he fell on the road and was run over," Kamal said.
Akbar was declared dead at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
The incident happened around 8:30am when Akbar was going to work from his home at Konapara in Jatrabari.
The driver of the Jatrabari-Gabtoli bus then got all the passengers off nearby and drove off.
Witness Kamal then contacted police about the matter.
At the hospital, Akbar's wife Lutfunnesa Lata could not believe what had happened. She just kept crying at the morgue.
The couple had gone out of their home together around 7:00am. He for work and she for a morning walk.
Their only son 12-year-old Mehedi Hasan was speechless.
Lata later filed a murder case with Motijheel Police Station.
Police could not catch the bus, the driver, conductor or the helper, said Sub-Inspector Amanullah of Motijheel Police Station.
"We received the registration number of the bus from witnesses. We are investigating," he said.
Mohammad Alauddin, a driver and co-worker of Akbar, told The Daily Star that he and Akbar were supposed to go to Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the afternoon to pick up an official of the company they work for.
Alauddin had called Akbar at 8:03am when Akbar told him that he was on a bus to Motijheel.
RECKLESS BUS KILLS SCHOOL BOY
A fourteen-year-old boy died after being hit by a speedy bus in the capital's Jatrabari area yesterday.
The deceased is Akbar Hossain, a class six student of Blue Bird High School at Jatrabari.
Akbar was heading home on a bicycle along the Dhaka-Chittagong highway around 3:30pm when a bus of Ovilash Transport hit him from behind, leaving him critically injured, said Abani Sanker Kar, officer-in-charge of Jatrabari Police Station.
He was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared him dead.
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