A 22-year-old man was killed as a truck hit a rickshaw van in the capital’s Rayerbazar area on Sunday morning.
The deceased was identified as Rabbi, an employee of a chicken wholesale shop at Rayerbazar.
The accident occurred near Martyr Intellectual graveyard around 6 am when the truck hit the van carrying Rabbi on his way back to his shop after delivering chickens at Nabisco area of Tejgaon, said his co-worker Ohid Mia, who was peddling the van.
Rabbi fell from the van and was crushed under the wheels of the truck, he added.
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He was rushed to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) where doctors declared him dead, said Inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of DMCH police outpost.
The body has been kept at the hospital morgue, he added.