A female employee of Quantum Foundation was killed as a bus ran her over in the city’s Shantinagar area on Tuesday.
The deceased was identified as Ruma, 30, an employee of the blood bank section of the foundation and wife of Shafiqul Islam of South Dania in the city.
The bus of ‘Al Makkah Paribahan’ hit Ruma while she was getting down from it at Shantinagar intersection around 9am, leaving her critically injured, said Inspector Bachchu Mia of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) police camp.
She was taken to the DMCH where she succumbed to her injuries around 1pm.
Ruma boarded the bus from Pallabi area to go to her workplace at Shantinagar when the accident took place.