A female student of a private university was crushed under the wheels of a bus in the capital’s Shahjadpur area yesterday night.
The dead was Jannatul Ferdous Mou, 22, a student of East West University hailing from Sadar upazila of Khulna district. She used to live at a women’s hostel in Merul Badda.
Inspector Mozammel Haque, in-charge of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) police camp, said Mou suddenly fell off a rickshaw in front of Suvasta Nazar Valley around 8pm on her way to Merul with her friend Jaj Rahman.
Soon, a moving bus hit Mou from behind, leaving her critically injured.
She was first taken to Badda General Hospital and later shifted to the DMCH where doctors declared her dead around 9pm.