One died and several got injured when a speeding bus rammed into some rickshaws and a parked car at East Shewrapara yesterday afternoon.
The deceased was identified as Kazi Shahid, 40, a vegetable vendor of the local kitchen market. He was walking towards his home at Taltola for lunch, said his family members, when he was run over by the bus.
Shahid was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in a critical state. The doctors declared him dead. Among the five who got injured, most of them were rickshaw pullers.
Swapan Hawlader, a roadside vendor told The Daily Star that a bus of Kanak Paribahan coming from Mirpur-12 lost control and hit a rickshaw. Later, he swerved and rammed into seven rickshaws and a parked car.
Rickshaw puller Abdur Rashid who injured both his legs said when the bus hit his rickshaw it toppled over throwing the passengers, a woman and her child, into disarray. Both of them sustained minor injuries.
Immediately after the incident, agitated bystanders thronged the spot and handed bus driver, Abdul Malek, 55, over to the police.
A case in this connection is under process, said Abu Bakr Siddique, assistant sub-inspector of Kafrul Police Station.
