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Woman killed as passenger bus runs over her in Dhaka

Published : Monday, 12 October, 2026 at 6:00 PM

Observer Online Report

A woman was killed after being run over by a passenger bus while crossing the road beneath the Tikatuli overbridge in the capital around 12:45PM on Monday.

The deceased was identified as Rina Rani Ghosh, 40. The accident occurred when a Doel Paribahan bus was overtaking another bus, according to police.

Wari Police Station Sub-Inspector Abu Bakkar said the woman was crossing the road beneath the overbridge when the bus ran over her, killing her on the spot. Police recovered the body and sent it to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for an autopsy.

He added that police seized the bus and detained its driver shortly after the incident.

The deceased’s husband, Biswajit Ghosh, said they were originally from Ibrahim-pur village in Nabinagar upazila of Brahmanbaria district and currently lived in Swamibagh, on KM Das Lane in Wari, with their two sons.

He works as a fish cutter at Thattari Bazar, while his wife worked as a domestic help. She was returning home after dropping their younger son, Pithu Ghosh, at a school in Nawabpur when the accident occurred.

- MaT

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