Was it accident or murder?

The news of senior journalist Zaglul Ahmed Chowdhury's death on November 29 came to us as a shock. He was badly injured as he fell on the road while getting down from a bus at Karwan Bazar in Dhaka. I will not call this just an accident but a murder. It is a common practice among our bus drivers and helpers to force the passengers to get off the running bus in the middle of the road. Why don't the authorities take any measures to change this attitude of bus drivers and make it obligatory for them to stop the buses when passengers are getting off? And what were the other passengers doing when the reckless bus driver pulled away before he (Zaglul) got off the bus? Could they not stop the driver from doing so?

Thanks to Almighty, I am still alive! Nowhere on the roads of Bangladesh we are safe. After the death of Tareq Masud, we noticed the authorities became 'active', but only for a few days. Would the authorities please take some pragmatic steps to improve the situation?

Pradip Das
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