Reckless bus kills university student
A private university student was killed as a bus hit his motorcycle from behind and then ran over him at Merul Badda in the capital yesterday.
The dead, Sadi Morshed, 20, a 2nd year student of Independent University, Bangladesh (IUB), was the youngest son of SMM Alam, a presidium member of Jatiya Party (Zafar).
The accident happened around 5:00pm when the victim was going back to his home in Kamalapur from the university campus in Bashundhara residential area, said MA Jalil, officer-in-charge of Badda Police Station.
Sadi was critically injured after the bus had rammed into his motorbike.
Doctors of Dhaka Medical College Hospital declared him dead on his arrival, said witnesses.
Even though police seize the bus, the driver managed to flee, said the OC.
Enamul Haq, who was sitting inside the bus, has blamed the bus driver for the accident.
“Instead of driving carefully, the man was busy in talking to a woman standing next to him. We asked him to stop talking several times but he did not pay any heed to our requests,” he said.
“The road was comparatively empty. And when we reached Merul Badda there was a sudden bang.
“We got down and found a man crushed under the back wheels. We rescued him pushing the bus backward,” Enamul said, adding that the victim was wearing a helmet.
Sadi's friend Iqramul Mohammad said they had talked to each other over the phone around 3:30pm, just one and a half hours before the accident.
“Sadi would have joined us in AGP colony in Motijheel from his home. When I called him again, someone else picked up his phone and informed me about the accident,” he added.
Sadi's father SMM Alam asked: “How can we live with such a traffic situation under which people are being killed every day?
“I want justice for my son's murder,” he said, in tears.
On Sunday, a student of the Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia was crushed under a bus, triggering widespread violence on the campus and prompting the authorities to shut the university indefinitely.
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