Police officer killed in Mirpur road crash
A police officer was killed by an inter-city bus in Shah Ali area of Dhaka's Mirpur this afternoon.
The deceased was identified as Uttam Kumar Sarkar, a sub-inspector of Rupnagar Police Station, Officer-In-Charge of Shah Ali Police Station Anwar Hossain, told The Daily Star.
A bus of Eagle Paribahan hit Uttam in the area around 4:30pm, leaving the police official dead on the spot, said the OC. The driver of the bus has been detained and the bus seized.
The incident takes place barely a month after a mass student uprising throughout the country on the demand of making roads in Dhaka city and elsewhere safer for commuters.
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