The vice-president of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal's Jahangirnagar University unit was killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Aricha highway yesterday.
Shahidullah Tushar, a graduate student of statistics department, hailed from Bhola district. Eyewitness Abdur Rahim Saikat, the JU unit Chhatra Dal general secretary, said that four JCD leaders were returning to Savar from Dhaka on a BRTC bus around 3pm after attending a scheduled programme. “Tushar was standing on the doorway talking on his mobile phone when the bus driver swerved to let a vehicle through but he hit a parked rickshaw van in front of Sheikh Hasina National Youth Centre,” Saikat said. “The impact caused Tushar to fall off the bus and onto the road,” he added. Tushar was rushed to Enam Medical College Hospital at Savar in a critical condition where the doctors declared him dead. OC of Ashulia police Mohsinul Kadir said that they could not detain anyone in connection with the death of Tushar. JU unit Jatiyatabadi Teachers’ Forum and Chhatra Dal expressed deep shock at his death.