Now RMG worker loses foot in Dhaka road accident

The right foot of a woman was crushed under the wheels of a bus while she was getting down from it at Malibagh intersection in Dhaka Friday afternoon. Nilufa Begum, 40, is a garment worker and a resident of Adabar area. A Mogbazar-bound bus ran over Nilufa around 5pm, leaving her critically injured, said rickshaw-puller Jamshed Al Main, who witnessed the incident. On information, Ashiqur Rahman, son of the victim, rushed in and took his mother to the emergency department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). After giving primary treatment, doctors at the DMCH sent Nilufa to the National Institute of Traumatology Orthopaedic Rehabilitation, popularly known as Pongu Hospital, said Dr Ashraf Kabir of the DMCH’s emergency department. Earlier, on April 4, Rajib Hossain, a student of Government Titumir College in Dhaka, lost his right hand after it got stuck between two buses at Bangla Motor. He succumbed to his injuries at DMCH on April 17. On April 20, an Uttara-bound BRTC bus from Mohakhali hit a teenage girl named Rozina Akhter while she was crossing the road at Banani. After suffering for nine days, she also lost her battle for survival. In yet another incident on April 28, a private car driver, Russell Sarkar, lost his leg at Dholaipar, when a bus of Green Line Paribahan hit his car on the slope of Hanif Flyover.