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She could only watch as racing buses crushed her mother
Suraiya Akhter was witness to her mother, Parveen, being crushed between two buses in Gulistan. Traumatised by the incident Akhter and her father broke down in tears at Dhaka Medical College Hospital after Parveen was declared dead. Photo: Collected
Staff Correspondent
Staff Correspondent
A daughter watched her mother being crushed to death between two buses, the drivers of which were competing to get ahead, at an intersection in Gulistan yesterday.
Witnesses said the tragic incident happened around 1:00pm when the deceased, Parveen Begum, 48, and her daughter Suraiya Akhter were crossing the road to catch a Munshiganj-bound bus to return home.
Daughter witnesses mother being crushed between buses in Dhaka’s Gulistan
Suraiya Akhter was witness to her mother, Parveen, being crushed between two buses in Gulistan. Traumatised by the incident Akhter and her father broke down in tears at Dhaka Medical College Hospital after Parveen was declared dead. Photo: Collected Star Digital Report Star Digital Report
A woman was crushed between two buses as the vehicles were competing to make U-turn in Dhaka s Gulistan roundabout this afternoon, witnesses said.
Deceased Parveen Begum (48) arrived in Dhaka from Munshiganj for her daughter s treatment.
The tragic incident happened around 1:00pm when Parveen and her daughter Suraiya Akhter were crossing the road to catch a Munshiganj-bound bus to return home.
The body was sent to Sir Salimullah Medical College morgue for autopsy.
Hailing from Cumilla s Debidwar upazila, the deceased used to live in Shyampur area.
Police seized the vehicles but the drivers fled after the accident.
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The explosion damaged the third, fourth and sixth floors of the building, they said.
The injured were rushed to 250-bed General Hospital from where two Meherun Nesa (40) and her daughter Hafsa Islam (15) were sent to the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
Locals said the mother and her two daughters are living in the rented flat and all the male members of the family are expatriates.
Resident Medical Officer (RMO) of the 250-bed hospital Md Iqbal Hossain Bhuiyan told the correspondent that the two who were sent to Dhaka suffered 60 percent burns.
The younger daughter of Meherun Nesa was released after giving primary treatment, the RMO said.