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4 killed on footpath

Killer bus driver escapes; airport intersection turns into a deathtrap

Staff correspondent
Four people were killed and 10 others injured when a speedy bus veered off the road after hitting an auto-rickshaw at the airport intersection in the capital and ran pedestrians over on a crowded footpath.
The Abdullahpur-bound bus of Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan was running at a speed of at least 60 kilometres per hour while crossing the busy intersection, according to other bus drivers who witnessed the accident.
This intersection is very prone to accidents because it is always crowded with people going to and leaving Hazrat
Shahjalal International Airport and jaywalkers, and for random parking of public transport.
The bus, travelling from Khilkhet, rammed an auto-rickshaw as it came out of the airport around 10:00am, said Mohammad Pervez, a hawker who was selling cucumbers a couple of feet away from the spot. The smaller vehicle rolled a few times. The bus driver lost control over the steering and crashed the vehicle through the roadside rails onto the footpath.
The bus dragged four pedestrians along until it slammed against a wall, Pervez added.
Of the four, Bilkis Begum, 35, Tajuddin
Ahmed, 42, and Sabur Khan, 29, died on the spot. Abdul Quddus Chowdhury, 55, succumbed to his wounds while he was being taken to hospital around 11:30am, said Shaftqul Islam, sub-inspector of Airport Police Station.
Ten passengers of the bus were also injured.
Police seized the bus but the driver managed to flee, the SI said. The bodies were sent to Dhaka Medical College morgue for autopsy.
The auto-rickshaw was seized too and its driver was detained.
"The CNG had slowed down at the spot where the bus crashed into it," said i n vest i ga t i on officer J ash i in ud d i n.
Saidul Islam Chowdhury, the grieving son of victim Abdul Quddus, told The Daily Star that his father was a Biman official. "He was going to the Biman medical centre in Ashkona as he was feeling sick, when the accident happened."
Bilkis Begum was a cook in Tongi, while Taj uddin Ahmed was a driver.
Meanwhile, another road crash killed a woman in Banani.
She was crossing the road in front of Maasranga television office around 11:30am when a rushing pick-up slammed into her.
Police immediately seized the pickup and arrested the driver, said a duty officer of Banani Police Station.