An eight-year-old girl was killed in a road accident in Dakshin Bathuli village of Savar’s Dhamrai on Tuesday.

Deceased Nasima Akter was the daughter of Nasir Uddin, an expatriate from Dakshin Bathuli village in Dhamrai.

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The accident occurred on Tuesday afternoon. The girl was crossing the street when she was crushed under the wheels of a coal-laden truck, OC Atiqur Rahman of Dhamrai Police Station said.

He said that the body was handed over to her family without an autopsy as per their wishes.