Bus-truck collision crushes rickshaw, kills one, injures one

A battery-run auto-rickshaw was apparently crushed in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in city’s Paltan area early today, killing a rickshaw passenger and injuring its puller.

Police identified the deceased as Zakir Hossain, aged 60, an official of the Mercantile Bank.

Police and witnesses said the accident took place around 5:00am in the area when the rickshaw was sandwiched in the collision between a bus of Unique Paribahan and an onion-laden truck.

Rickshaw passenger Zakir died on the spot while the rickshaw driver suffered injuries and was rushed to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH).

Police seized both the vehicles, but the drivers managed to flee the scene. (BSS)