A woman has died after being struck and then dragged along the road underneath a private car in the Dhaka University campus area. The victim was identified as Rubina Akter(45). She was a housewife whose husband passed away two years ago and she left behind a son. The incident took place around 3pm when a private car struck a motorcycle in front of the National Museum at Shahabag. READ: Jashore: Father, son among 5 killed as covered van ploughs into restaurant The woman who was a passenger on the bike fell off it, and got entangled between the tires as she slipped underneath the car, which dragged her in that state till the Nilkhet intersection.  People stopped the car from going further on noticing what was happening. The woman was brought out from underneath the vehicle in critical condition, while an agitated mob resorted to thrashing the driver and vandalising his car.  Later, police came and took both the badly-injured woman and the driver to Dhaka Medical College Hospital.  The woman died while undergoing treatment, confirmed DMCH police camp In-charge Bacchu Mia. Rubina Akter's brother-in-law Nurul Amin told UNB that she was going with him to her sister's house in Hazaribagh from Tejgaon on motorcycle. READ:  Patuakhali HSC examinee stabbed in front of test centre "When we reached in front of Shahbagh museum, a private car hit us from behind and dragged her till Nilkhet intersection from Shahabag," he said. "I was shouting from behind to stop the car but the driver didn’t hear me," he added. Zafor Shah, the driver of the private car, is a former associate professor of Dhaka University's International Relations(IR) department.  Contacted, OC of Shahabag police station Noor Mohammad said, "We have seized the private car but no case has been filed yet."