Yet another life was lost in road accident in the capital on Tuesday. This time a six-year-old minor had to watch her mother got crushed under the wheels of a bus right in front of her.
The deceased Roksana Begum Laila, 37, was returning her Rayerbagh residence, Jatrabari along with her school-going daughter Nusrat Samia by a rickshaw.
“An Ananda Paribahan bus of the Gulishtan-Narayanganj route hit their rickshaw from behind around 12pm near the north gate of Kamlapur’s Inland Container Depo,” Masud Kader Jewel, an eye-witness, who works as a clearing and forwarding agent in the area told reporters.
“The collusion threw the daughter to the left-side of the road and the mother on the right and the bus ran over the latter,” he added.
Rokasana’s husband Saifullah, a medicine shop owner at Mitford area of the capital, said they had recently bought a car to carry his and his two brothers’ children to and from school.
“As Nusrat’s classes were supposed to end at 11am while the classes of her cousins at 12pm, Rokhsana told the driver that she would take Nusrat home by rickshaw and asked him to take the other children home.”
Recalling a past conversation with his wife, Saifullah said: “Rokhsana was unwilling to ride rickshaw with children, as she always feared that the children would slip from their seat.”
The deceased’s family members were seen bursting into tears and holding each others’ arms on the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital premises.
Mehedi, the elder son of the victim, was seen crying: “Who will take care of us? Who will feed Nusrat and Leon now? There is nobody left.”
“Mom, please come back. Someone please tell her not to go,” he went on crying.
Contacted, Officer-in-Charge of Shahjahanpur police station Zia-uz-Zaman said: “After the accident the bus was seized but both the driver and the helper managed to abscond in the crowd.”
