A 25-year-old readymade garment (RMG) worker and mother of two children died after being run over by a speeding pickup van in Bhogra Maddhopara of Gazipur city on Friday.

Sharifa Akter was an operator of a local apparel factory and used to live with her two sons and husband at a rented house in Outpara area. She hailed from Muktagachha upazila of Mymensingh.

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Locals and relatives said she had gone with her two sons to a hair salon at Sarkar Bari Crossing in Bhogra Maddhopara under Basan police station in the morning.

While they were having their haircuts inside, Sharifa was waiting outside. That's when the pickup van ran over her. She succumbed to her injuries on the way to hospital.

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Md Sanowar Jahan, officer-in-charge of Basan police station, said the body was sent to Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.

The pickup van driver Md Marfat Ali was detained in this connection, he added.

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