The Special Response Battalion (SRB) has arrested bus driver Nasir Mia, 47, accused over a head-on collision between a bus and a tomtom in Sylhet city’s airport area that killed a mother and her daughter.
Additional superintendent of police KM Shahidul Islam Sohag, media officer of SRB-9, confirmed the arrest on Friday, 16 October. He was arrested in a raid in the Dhaka South-West Bazar area of Golapganj upazila at about 5pm on Thursday.
Nasir is the son of Samsul Haque of the Pirergaon area under Sylhet’s Airport police station.
According to SRB-9, at about 7:30pm last Saturday, Sumaiya Siddika, of the Lalbagh area under Airport police station, had taken her elder daughter to a doctor, with her other daughter, Iniya, also with them. On their way home by tomtom, the bus and the tomtom collided head-on on Buribosti bridge in the Keowachhara area of Airport police station, injuring them and several others. The injured were taken to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital, where Sumaiya and Iniya died under treatment at about 8:50pm. The elder daughter is still being treated at the hospital.
Sumaiya’s husband filed a case with Airport police station on Monday. The SRB then began an investigation to identify and arrest those involved, and arrested Nasir with the help of technology. He has been handed over to Airport police station.
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