Desk Report: Another school student lost her life in a hit-and-run accident in Shakhipur upazila, Tangail Friday morning, reports the Dhaka tribune.
Sadia Jahan, 15, was crossing the road at Beltoli Bazar in Shakhipur’s Kalia union around 9:30am when a pick-up truck struck her from behind and ran over her. She was rushed to Shakhipur Upazila Health Complex in critical condition, but as her condition deteriorated, she was transferred to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital, where the on-duty doctors pronounced her dead around 12pm. Sadia was a student of Class X in Barachowna High School in Shakhipur. Police have arrested the driver of the pick-up truck, also 15 years old, and seized the vehicle, said SM Tuhin Ali, OC of Shakhipur police station. When this report was filed around 4pm, police were preparing to file a case on the accident, the OC told the Dhaka Tribune.