A 34-year-old woman was killed after being hit by a bus at the Saydabad Railgate area in the capital's Jatrabari on Monday evening.
The deceased was identified as Taslima Akter Shahinur, wife of Rashid Bappi and a resident of 73/1 South Jatrabari. She is survived by a son and a daughter.
The accident occurred around 7:15 pm when Taslima was travelling in a battery-run auto-rickshaw from her father-in-law’s house in Bangshal, Old Dhaka, towards her home.
Youth killed in Dhaka road crash
The auto-rickshaw collided with a Tisha Paribahan bus near the Saydabad railway line, leaving her critically injured, her husband Rashid Bappi said.
She was rushed to the emergency department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where the on-duty doctor declared her dead on arrival, Bappi added.
Inspector Md Faruk, in-charge of the DMCH police camp, said the body has been kept at the hospital morgue and the matter has been informed to the concerned police station.