Woman dies after being hit by car and dragged thru DU campus
Car was being driven by former teacher of DU
The woman who was hit by a private car and dragged around for several hundred yards on Dhaka University (DU) campus this afternoon died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
She passed away around 4:30pm at DMCH, Masud Mia, an assistant sub-inspector of DMCH Police Outpost.
The deceased was identified as Rubina Akther, 45.
How the incident unfolded
Around 3:00pm a private car hit a woman near TSC and dragged her several hundred yards around the campus, leaving her critically injured. She was immediately taken to DMCH for treatment.
A former teacher of DU was driving the car, according to DU Proctor Golam Rabbani. Meanwhile, the deceased's brother-in-law Nurul Amin told The Daily Star that he was driving the motorcycle and Rubina was sitting on the back.
"Our house is at Hajaribagh area. We were heading home from Tejgaon through the Dhaka University campus. A car hit my motorcycle in the area right between Shahbagh and TSC. We both fell off but my sister-in-law got pinned under the car that hit us. The car then dragged her all the way from there to Nilkhet and did not stop even though all of us were screaming and shouting," Nurul Amin said.
Right after the incident, the driver tried to escape but students and pedestrians intercepted the car and caught the driver, according to witnesses.
Golam Rabbani, proctor of Dhaka University rushed to DMCH after the incident. He identified the man behind the steering wheel as former Assistant Professor Azhar Jafar Shah of International Relations department of DU.
Azhar was sacked from the university in 2018 due to his prolonged absence.
He was also admitted to DMCH as students and pedestrians beat him up after stopping the car.
A video clip obtained by The Daily Star shows that people were shouting at the driver to stop the car which kept dragging the woman towards Nilkhet.