A five-year-old boy has been killed after being hit by a bus on the Darshana-Mujibnagar road in Damurhuda, Chuadanga. The accident happened at about 1 p.m. on Monday (July 13) as the child was crossing the road in Dhanyaghara village of the upazila’s Kurulgachhi union.
According to family and local sources, the child was returning home from school by van with his grandmother. As he got down from the van and was crossing the Darshana-Mujibnagar road, near the club house in Dhanyaghara village of Kurulgachhi union, a speeding Rekha Paribahan bus hit him. He collapsed on the spot and died.
Immediately after the accident, Darshana police seized the bus, which is now in the custody of Darshana police station. Darshana police station officer-in-charge (OC) Nazrul Islam said the body of the child was currently at a hospital, and that so far no case had been filed by the family over the incident.
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