A security guard was killed as a private car dashed him in the city’s Gulshan area on Monday night.
The deceased was identified as Shamsuzzaman, 42, security guard of G4S Security Company.
The private car hit Shamsuzzaman around 11:30am when he was performing duty at Pizza Hat Restaurant in the area, leaving him critically injured, said Inspector Bachchu Mia of Dhaka Medical College Hospital Police Outpost.
He succumbed to his injuries around 12:15am while undergoing treatment at the hospital. The body was kept at the hospital morgue for autopsy, the official added.