A 16-year-old teenage boy was killed after being hit by a microbus at Elephant Road in the capital on Friday night.
The deceased was identified as Md Yusuf, a worker at a shoe shop and son of Ayub Ali of Hazaribagh area.
The accident occurred around 9 am when the microbus hit him while crossing the road, leaving him injured, said Sabuj Mia, sub-inspector of New Market Police Station.
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Later, he was first taken to Popular Hospital and later shifted to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital where the doctors declared him dead around 11 pm.
The body was kept at the hospital morgue, said SI.
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