3 die in city road crashes
Three persons including two minor girls were killed in separate road accidents in the city yesterday.
Dead are Sheuli Akhter, 6, Sumaiya Akhter, 7, and an unidentified woman aged about 60.
Sheuli, daughter of Shahidul Islam of Chot Bari Beri Bandh area under Shah Ali Police Station, died on the spot as a pick-up van carrying bottled water hit her in the area.
Local people seized another pick-up van of the same company and beat up the driver who was not responsible for the accident. They handed over the driver to police, but police later freed him upon realising Tk 50,000 from him, according to local sources.
The sources said police took Tk 10,000 of the amount, locals who helped forge the compromise took Tk 10,000, and the victim's family took the remaining Tk 30,000.
Shah Ali Police Station Sub-inspector Touhidul Islam told this correspondent that Sheuli's family and some locals reached the compromise with the driver and his side. Police freed the driver, as he did not hit the girl and made a compromise with the victim's family, he said. The SI, however, said he did know nothing about any transaction of money.
Sumaiya, daughter of Md Alam of Gabtoli city colony, was run over by a passenger vehicle (Leguna) near Gabtoli Beri Bandh. She died on the spot.
The unidentified elderly woman was injured as a bus hit her at Gulshan-1. She was taken to Mohakhali Metropolitan Hospital where doctors declared her dead.
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