Woman killed in road crash

10 July 2010, 18:00 PM

Staff Correspondent

A woman aged around 40 was killed after a microbus knocked her down at Progati Sarani in the city's Badda yesterday morning. Deceased Peara Begum, wife of Azhar Uddin, hailed from Gosairhat upazila under Shariatpur. Doctors pronounced Peara dead when she was shifted to Bangladesh Medical College Hospital (BMCH) from a clinic. Peara was accompanied by Azhar en route to visit her ailing father at BMCH in Uttara. Peara's brother-in-law Billal Hossain said she with her husband came to Uttar Badda at her younger brother's house two days ago. She arrived in Dhaka from Shariatpur to see her father. Second Officer of Badda Police Station Shahjahan Bhuiyan said the microbus that ran over Peara could not be traced. Police were yet to arrest anybody in this connection, he added.