The police arrested the driver and the assistant of a Shyamoli Paribahan bus that killed a flower trader by hitting him at Shahbagh in the capital on Thursday.
The deceased is Mohammad Anwar Hossain, 55, a flower trader at the Shahbagh flower market.
Confirming the matter, Shahbagh police station officer-in-charge Mohammad Khalid Mansoor said that the accident took place in the morning when Anwar was crossing the road.
鈥楢 case was filed in this regard. Police seized the bus and arrested its driver and his assistant,鈥� he added.
Anwar, a resident of Sirajdikhan upazila in Munshiganj, was living in a rented house with his family in Dhaka鈥檚 Hazaribagh area.
Mohammad Anik, victim鈥檚 son who took him to the hospital, said that the incident occurred at about 6:00am on Thursday when a bus of Shyamoli Paribahan hit his father while he was crossing the road at Shahbagh.
鈥楬e was seriously injured in the accident. We took him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where the doctor on duty declared him dead,鈥� he said.
DMCH police outpost in-charge Mohammad Faruk said that the body was kept at the DMCH morgue for autopsy.
