Auto-rickshaw driver killed in city road crash

A 60-year-old auto-rickshaw driver died on the spot as a passenger bus hit his vehicle from the back in the capital’s New Market area today, police and hospital sources said.

The CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver was identified as Golam Mostafa, who died on the spot when an Azimpur-bound passenger bus of ‘Thikana Paribahan’ rammed into the three-wheeler this morning, inspector Bachchu Mia of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) police outpost told BSS.

The victim’s body was kept at the hospital morgue for autopsy, he added.

A hospital source said Golam Mostafa, along with his family, lived in Rampura area.

Police seized the bus and detained its driver Jalal (30) after the accident.