Police and families have differed over how a truck driver died yesterday.
Emdadul Islam Raju, 35, who hailed from Gurudashpur village in Natore, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) about 6:10pm.
The victim, who was married with a four-year-old-child, was admitted to the hospital around 10:45am.
The victim received head injury in a picketers’ attack near Mohasthangar in Bogra around 3am while driving to Dhaka with his truck laden with potato, a person called Helal Uddin, who brought him to the hospital, told the Dhaka Tribune.
He was rushed to a local clinic but his condition began worsening and so doctors referred him to Dhaka for better treatment, he said.
Physician Pijush Kanti said he was injured blood had severely been clotted in the victim’s head, resulting in his death.
“My nephew was the only hope for his family. I do not know what would now happen to his family,” Victim Raju’s uncle Robiul told the Dhaka Tribune, adding that as far he knew his nephew had died after being injured in a picketers’ attack.
Bogra’s Shibganj police station Officer-in-Charge Ahsan Habib however told the Dhaka Tribune that there only occurred a road crash at the place where it was being said that truck driver Raju had been injured in a picketers’ attack around 2:30am.
OC Habib added that since there did not occur any kind of picketers’ attack there, there is no question of his death after being injured in anything but a road crash.
One hour later, he revisited the area and called up the Dhaka Tribune, saying there did not really take place any picketers’ attack there.
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