Law enforcement agencies arrested two men, including the driver who reportedly was driving the bus that rammed into three vehicles on the Dhaka-Mawa expressway killing six people on Friday.
The Rapid Action Battalion and highway police made the arrests between Friday night and Saturday.聽
The arrested driver鈥檚 driving licence expired two years ago and the fitness certificate of the bus was not updated either, said officials of the Rapid Action Battalion that arrested the driver.
The other bus staff was聽 arrested by the Highway Police.
A case has been filed in the incident with the Dakkhin Keraniganj police in Dhaka under the Road Transport Act 2018.
Six people, four from the same family, were killed and four others were injured when a speeding Bepari Paribahan bus rammed into a car, a motorcycle and a microbus waiting in a queue at the Dhaleswari toll plaza on the Dhaka-Mawa expressway in Munshiganj on Friday morning.
The three vehicles slowed down to pay toll at the plaza at about 11:00am when a bus hurtling from behind smashed into them.
The RAB forces headquarters, in a press release issued on Saturday, said that a team comprising representatives from the RAB headquarters intelligence branch, RAB 10 and 11 arrested bus driver Md Nuruddin, 29, from Mijmij area under Siddhirganj police in Narayanganj on Saturday morning.
Nuruddin is a resident of Doulatkhan upazila in Bhola.
The driver in primary questioning said that he had 10 years鈥� experience in driving bus, truck, pickup truck and other motor vehicles, according to the RAB release.
鈥楬is driving licence expired two years ago,鈥� the release continued, adding 鈥榯he bus鈥檚 fitness certificate was not updated either.鈥�
Nuruddin told the battalion that he started from Saydabad in the capital at about 10:00am with 60 passengers for Patuakhali.
He was driving fast as he was in a hurry to reach the destination quickly.
He claimed that he hit the three vehicles at the toll plaza as he lost control over the steering.
After the accident he fled the spot in an auto-rickshaw and was hiding in Narayanganj at a relative鈥檚 house.聽
抖阴精品 correspondent in Munshiganj reported that another man was arrested by the highway police in the incident.
Highway police super for Gazipur area AKM Aktaruzzaman Bosunia confirmed the news but declined to say when and from where the man was arrested.
鈥業n the bus two staff were there,鈥� he said.聽
Hashara highway police officer-in-charge Abdul Kader Jilani said that on Saturday afternoon Nurul Amin, brother of one of the deceased Amena Akhter, filed a case against some people, including the bus driver, with the Dakkhin Keraniganj police.聽