A college principal died after being hit by a brick-laden tractor in Rupsa upazila of the Khulna district on Sunday.
The deceased is identified as Md Rafiqul Islam, 40, principal of private Chandpur College in the upazila.
Sardar Mosharraf Hossain, officer-in-charge (OC) of Rupsa police station, said the accident took place around 12pm when the speeding tractor knocked him from behind in the WAPDA area on his way home from the college, leaving him critically injured.
Locals rushed him to Upazila Health Complex where physicians pronounced him dead upon arrival, he said.
The body was sent to Khulna Medical College Hospital morgue for an autopsy, he said, adding that the locals caught the vehicle’s driver and handed him over to police.