At least two students of Dhaka’s Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College were crushed to death by a bus of Jabale Noor Transport services on Airport Road in Kurmitola area of the capital on Sunday.
Confirming the matter, DMP Cantonment police station officer-in-charge Kazi Sahan Aque said to Jago News that identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
The accident took place when a Uttara-bound bus of ‘Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan’ ran over a group of students while they were standing beside the road, leaving the duo dead on the spot and at least eight others injured, witnesses said.
The bus coming from Mirpur area hit the standing students just after getting down from the flyover on the busy road, they added.
Later, agitating people vandalized buses and set fire to a bus at the spot. Additional police were deployed to bring the situation under control.