An additional secretary was killed in a road accident at Dhanmondi in the capital on Friday morning.
The deceased Abu Taher, was an officer on special duty attached to the established ministry, and a resident of 16/8, Primary School Road, Kalayanpur.
Quoting witnesses, police said that a speedy Mirpur-bound bus of Bikalpa Paribahan knocked Taher down while he was crossing the road in front of Capital Hospital located at Dhanmondi-8 at around 10:30am.
He was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries at around 11:30am.
Sub-inspector Motlubur Rahman of Dhanmondi police station told New Age that they had seized the killer bus but its driver and his assistant managed to get away.
He said that the police came to know about Taher’s identity from the identity card found in his pocket.
‘The victim’s son, Anisuzzaman Babu, told police at the Dhaka Medical College morgue that his father was promoted as an additional secretary just a few months back and attached to the establishment ministry as an OSD,’ Motlub said.
Taher, an officer of 1982 batch of BCS, is survived by his widow and three sons.
He came from Alipur village of Homna upazila in Comilla district.
Babu told reporters that his father was going to AR Plaza located at Dhanmondi where they ran a shop.
A case was filed in this regard.
On July 31, 2009, the acting secretary to the women and children affairs ministry and the chairman of the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation died in a road accident on the Dhaka-Aricha Road at Shibalaya in Manikganj.
On February 15, 2010, a woman and her son were killed in a road accident at Matuail in Dhaka on Tuesday.
On August 18, 2010, a bus hit a motorcycle killing a woman and injuring her son at Farmgate in the capital.
On February 3, 2010, Hamim Sheikh, a five-year-old kindergarten student, was run over by a bus as he was crossing the road with his mother at Kakrail.
Hamim, a student of Willes Little Flower School, died on the spot while his mother sustained critical injuries.
At least 40 people were killed in road accidents in the city since January 1, according to a New Age tally.
Courtesy of New Age
