Ekattor TV video editor killed as bus hits his motorcycle on Dhaka's Pragati Sarani

A video editor of Ekattor TV was killed after a bus hit his motorcycle near Jamuna Future Park Mall on Pragati Sarani in Dhaka this afternoon.

The accident happened around 5:00pm when Gopal Sutradhar (40) was going home in Nikunja area after work from Ekattor TV's Baridhara office, Nadia Sharmeen, a senior reporter of the television channel, told The Daily Star, quoting witnesses.

Nadia said as he reached near Jamuna Future Park, an Uttara-bound bus of Victor Classic Paribahan hit his motorbike from behind, leaving him critically injured.

Gopal was first taken to a nearby hospital from where he was shifted to National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR) where doctors declared him dead, the reporter added.

Abul Hasan, officer-in-charge of Gulshan Police Station, said they have seized the bus but the driver managed to flee the scene.