Pedestrian killed by bus in the city
A man was killed yesterday morning after a bus hit him while he was crossing the road in the city’s Asad Gate area.
The deceased, Ashraf Uddin Dewan (65) was a resident of Kalyanpur and an employee of a real estate developer.
Sujan Biswas, a sub-inspector of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station, said Ashraf was hit by a bus of Projapati Paribahan around 9:30am.
Pedestrians initially took him to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital. As his condition deteriorated, he was shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where doctors declared him dead.
Police seized the bus but the driver managed to flee the scene.
Victim’s daughter Tania Akter said her father left home for work in the morning.
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