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Tangail bus horror: Suspected robber remanded
A court here on Thursday placed one of the seven armed robbers who allegedly hijacked a Chattogram-bound bus in Tangail, looted commuters and raped a young woman, on a five-day police remand.
Senior Judicial Magistrate Badal Kumar Chanda passed the order after police sought a seven-day remand to interrogate gang member Raza Mia, said court inxpector Tanbir Ahmed.
Meanwhile ,Senior Judicial Majistrate Rumi Khatun recorded statement of the rape survivor under section 22 of the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act Thursday evening.
“In primary medical test of the girl evidence of rape was found," said Assistant Professor Dr Rehana Parvin, head of the three-member medical board formed by Tangail Sheikh Hasina Medical College Hospital in this regard.
Raza Mia, 32, was arrested from the Deula area of Tangail district town Thursday morning, said police.
During interrogation, Raza told cops that he was the one who drove the bus while others held the passengers and staff hostage at gunpoint, said Sarkar Md Kaisar, superintendent of Tangail Police.
Read: Robbers loot commuters & rape woman on Ctg-bound bus
The spine-chilling crime occurred in the Raktipara area of Tangail's Madhupur upazila, off the Dhaka-Tangail Highway, in the early hours of Wednesday when the bus was on its way to Chattogram from Kushtia.
Raza is a driver of ‘Jhatika Service’ bus in Tangail and lived in a rented house in Tangail new bus terminal area.
Posing as passengers, the seven boarded the bus in two groups in a span of 10 minutes around 11pm on Tuesday after it resumed its onward journey following a stopover at a hotel in Sirajganj district.
Twenty-four people, including 22 passengers and two staffers, were on board the bus of ‘Eagle Paribahan’ at the time.
Around 12am on Wednesday, when the bus took the busy Dhaka-Tangail Highway in the Natiapara area, the seven robbers whiffed out guns, hijacked the vehicle, and drove it towards Madhupur upazila.
On a desolate stretch, the armed gang robbed the twenty-four people, including 22 passengers of cash, jewellery and mobile phones.
They then blindfolded the passengers and raped the woman commuter on board.
The passengers' ordeal continued for over three hours till the seven criminals forced them to get off the bus and drove the heavy vehicle towards Raktipara's Jam-e-Mosque, where they abandoned it and fled with the booty, police said.
An FIR has been lodged in connection with the robbery and rape.
5 killed in Gazipur road crash
Five people were killed as a bus crashed into a battery-run auto-rickshaw in Kaliakair upazila of Gazipur on Saturday night, police said.
The deceased were identified as auto rickshaw driver Nazrul Islam, 27, and its four passengers- Mehedi Hasan, 44, Atiqul Islam, 42, Saidul Islam, 27, and Shahin Uddin, 28.
The accident occurred around 10:30 pm when a speeding passenger bus of ‘Itihas Paribahan’ collided with the auto-rickshaw coming from the opposite direction at Makish Bathan in the upazila, leaving the auto-rickshaw driver and Mehedi dead on spot and three injured, said Abdul Bashar, officer-in-charge (OC) of Kaliakair police station.
The injured were rushed to Kaliakair Health Complex in critical condition where two of them succumbed to their injuries, said the OC.
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Later, another was shifted to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital where he was declared dead, said Sub-Inspector (SI) of Kaliakair police station Rahat Akand.
The bodies were handed over to their respective families without post mortem, he added.
Police seized the killer bus but its driver escaped, said the SI.
Road accidents in Bangladesh
As many as 524 people including 73 children were killed and 821 others injured in 467 road accidents across the country in June alone.
Of these, 204 people died in motorbike accidents alone during this period, which is 38.93% of the total fatalities, the Road Safety Foundation said in its latest report released on July 4.
Besides, 107 pedestrians, 86 drivers and their assistants were killed in the accidents.
Meanwhile, Bangladesh witnessed 398 deaths on roads in 319 accidents in just 15 days during journeys before and after Eid-ul-Azha this year.
The accidents and deaths recorded on Bangladesh roads during Eid-ul-Azha were highest in the last 7 years, according to a report prepared by Jatri Kalyan Samiti, a passenger welfare organization.
Sexual assault on running bus: Driver placed on one-day remand
A Dhaka court on Thursday placed Md Mahbubur Rahman, driver of a Bikash Paribahan bus, on a one-day remand for sexually harassing a college student on a running bus.
Judge Syed Mostafa Reza Nur of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Court passed the order after Investigation Officer (IO) of the case and Officer In-charge (OC) of Azimpur police outpost Asibuzzaman Asib produced the accused before the court sought a five-day remand.
Mahbubur was arrested from Ashulia on Wednesday.
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According to the case statement, the victim boarded a bus of Bikash paribahan to reach Azimpur from Dhanmondi around 8:40pm on July 24. At one point, she fell asleep in the bus.
Around 9:10pm, the victim felt that someone was touching her body. She woke up and found the bus was deserted and the helper of the bus was sitting next to her.
The helper grasped the victim’s mouth when she tried to cry for help. She stood up and asked the driver to stop the bus. But the driver increased the speed instead of stopping the bus.
Finally, the victim jumped off the running bus to escape.
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Later, she wrote a post on facebook from where Lalbagh police came to know the matter.
Members from Lalbagh police station identified the victim based from the facebook post and collected information from her. Using modern technology, police seized the bus and came to know about the driver.
The victim later lodged a complaint with Lalbagh police station in this regard, based on which the arrest was made.
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8 killed in India road crash
Eight people were killed and over 30 others injured after a double-decker bus crashed into another in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on Monday.
The accident occurred on the Purvanchal Expressway near Narayan Pur village in the state's Barabanki district, some 600 kms from the national capital.
Police said both the ill-fated buses were travelling to Delhi from the eastern Indian state of Bihar when the tragedy occurred.
"When one of the buses stopped suddenly in the middle of the high-speed corridor, the second one hit it from behind at cruise speed," a police officer told the local media.
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The impact of the crash was such that eight passengers of the buses died on the spot, he said, adding that the injured were rushed to nearby hospitals.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath took to social media to express his grief and extend condolences to the families of the deceased.
"A probe has been ordered into the crash," the police officer said.
Road accidents are common in India, with one taking place every four minutes. These accidents are blamed on poor roads, rash driving and scant regard for traffic laws.
The Indian government's implementation of stricter traffic laws in recent years has failed to rein in accidents, which claim over 100,000 lives every year.
10-year old crushed under bus in Gazipur, 1 injured
A 10-year old girl was killed on her way to school after being hit by a bus at Tongi in Gazipur on Saturday.
The deceased was identified as Fatema Haque, a student of class three of Sahajuddin School.
Her aunt Shahnaj Begum also suffered injuries in the accident.
Fatema used to live with her paternal aunt at Bonomala in Tongi as both her parents are Dubai expatriates, said Yasin Arafat, Sub-Inspector of Tongi east police station.
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When Fatema with her aunt Shahnaj was going to school by a rickshaw around 7 am a staff bus of Kohinoor Chemicals Factory hit it, leaving her dead on the spot.
Angered by the accident, hundreds of students of Sahajuddin School blocked Bonomala-Tongi road around 10 am and staged demonstrations demanding arrest of the bus driver, said police.
After an hour students left the road around 11 am after police and teachers assured them of justice, said SI Yasin Arafat.
“The body has been sent for an autopsy and legal action will be taken in this regard,” said Jabed Khan Masud, officer-in-Charge of Tongi east police station.
20 injured as bus overturns at Jatrabari
At least 20 people sustained injuries after a commuter bus overturned in the Bishwaroad area of Jatrabari in Dhaka on Friday morning.
The accident occurred around 6.30am when the driver lost control of the speeding bus, belonging to Bandhan Paribahan, moments after taking a turn at the busy Bishwaroad intersection, said Monir Hossain, one of the injured passengers.
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The injured were taken to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH), and 18 of them are being treated at the emergency department, said Bacchu Mia, inspector in-charge of DMCH police outpost.
“At least three of the injured are in a critical condition,” he said, quoting the duty doctor.
Some of the injured have been identified as Omar Ali, 30, Monir Hossain, 35, Md Shafique, 32, Shahnaz Begum, 35, Md Rafi, 7, Md Jony, 25, and Munny Akter.
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Four killed in Barishal road accident
Four people were killed and three others injured when a bus crashed into a battery-run three-wheeler on the Dhaka-Kuakata highway in Bakerganj upazila of Barishal district on Wednesday.
The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
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Alauddin Milon, officer-in-charge of Bakerganj Police Station, said the accident occurred when the Barishal-bound bus hit the three-wheeler at high speed, leaving four of its occupants dead on the spot.
On information, police recovered the bodies and sent them to a local hospital morgue for post-mortem. "The injured have been hospitalised," the OC said.
7 killed as bus hits auto-rickshaw in Chattogram, 6 hurt
Seven people were killed and six others injured as a bus hit their CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Chittagong-Cox's Bazar highway in Patiya upazila of Chattogram on Monday, said police.
The identities of the deceased couldn't be known immediately.
The accident occurred around 8pm when the bus hit the auto-rickshaw near Bayar Jaluar Dighi on the highway and plunged into a roadside ditch, said Rashedul Islam, officer-in-charge (OC) of Patiya police station.
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The accident left five passengers of the auto- rickshaw dead on the spot and eight others injured, he said.
The injured were later rushed to Patiya Health Complex where two of them succumbed to their injuries, the OC added.
Bus damages Padma Bridge toll booth at Mawa end, one injured
A toll collector at the Mawa end of Padma Bridge sustained injuries after a commuter bus crashed into his booth on Saturday, forcing authorities to halt collection there.
The injured collector of toll booth number 2 has been identified as Md Ripon Hussian, 22.
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Alamgir Hussain, officer-in-charge of Padma Uttar police station, said that the accident occurred around 11am when the Shariatpur-bound bus hit the booth after its driver lost control of the vehicle.
"The accident led to the damage of a computer at the booth. The injured collector has been hospitalised," he added.
However, toll collection at four other booths remained normal, he added.
Police constable killed being hit by bus in city
A police constable riding a motorbike was hit and killed by a bus in the city’s Sonargaon intersection Monday.
The deceased was identified as Korban Ali Hossain, 35, a constable posted at Rajarbagh Police Telecom Bhaban and used to live at Savar.
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A bus of Welcome Paribahan hit Korban’s motorcycle around 10 am, said Al Imran, Sub-Inspector of Hatirjheel police station.
He was immediately taken to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) where doctors declared him dead around 11:45 am, he said.
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The bus was seized and efforts are on to detain the driver after identifying him from CCTV footages, said SI Al Imran.
He said the body has been sent for autopsy.