A pedestrian was killed when a bus struck him in Khilgaon on Saturday morning.
The deceased, Mohammad Zakir Hossain Chowdhury, 60, a real estate businessman, lived with his family in a house on Donia Graveyard Road in Jatrabari.
Relatives said he was crossing the road in front of the Khilgaon Police Outpost around 11:30 am when he was hit by a Sakura bus.
His son, Afaz Uddin Chowdhury, said his father went out for business in the morning. “After being hit, he was thrown onto the road and suffered serious injuries,” he added.
Khilgaon police rescued him and took him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s emergency department around 2:45 pm, where doctors declared him dead.
Police have seized the bus and arrested its helper, Afaz said.
Inspector Mohammad Faruk, in-charge of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital police outpost, said the body was kept in the hospital morgue.
