News Desk : dhakamirror.com
A Eden Mahila College student died after she fell from a battery-run rickshaw in old Dhaka’s Bangshal area on early Thursday.
The accident took place when Salma along with her cousin Mohamamd Hasan were heading towards her college hostel on the rickshaw from Sadarghat area.
They returned to Dhaka on a launch from their village home in Bhola. After disembarking the launch, they were heading to Salma’s hostel on a battery-run rickshaw. The rickshaw toppled over after a part of it fell in a hole on the North South Road in Bongshal. Salma fell on the street and suffered a severe head injury, said Hasan.
She was rushed to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital where doctors declared her dead, according to Inspector Bacchu Mia of DMCH Police Outpost.
The rickshaw driver fled the scene with the three-wheeler following the accident, he added.
