Competition between two buses to get more passengers on board resulted in the fatal accident that caused the tragic end of two young lives on Airport Road on July 29, the driver of Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan bus admitted on Tuesday.
The driver, Masum Billa, was produced before the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Golam Nabi, for a confessional deposition under section 164 of Code of Criminal Procedure, reports UNB.
Earlier on August 1, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate HM Toaha placed Masum Billa on a seven-day remand for interrogation.
Police arrested Masum Billa from Barguna town on July 31.
Diya Khanam Mim and Abdul Karim Rajib, students of the college section of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin School and College, were killed as the Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan bus ploughed through some students in front of Kurmitola General Hospital on Airport Road on July 29.
A case was filed for the accident with Cantonment police station.
