OUR CORRESPONDENT, Cumilla

A two-year-old girl was crushed to death yesterday by a government vehicle in Cumilla’s Homna upazila.

The accident occurred around 9:30am in front of the Tulip Administration Institute inside the Upazila Parishad compound.

According to family members and eyewitnesses, the child had come to the compound with her mother in the morning when the assistant commissioner’s official vehicle entered the premises at high speed and ran over her, killing her on the spot.

“The vehicle was coming at a very high speed. In an instant, my precious Faiza was gone,” said the child’s mother.

Assistant Commissioner (Land) Ahammed Mofasser and the newly appointed Upazila Nirbahi Officer Shahidul Islam rushed to Homna Upazila Government Hospital after hearing the news.

“I was not in the vehicle at the time of the incident -- I rushed here as soon as I heard the news. This child could have been my own. As a father, I will extend full cooperation to ensure the highest legal action,” Mofasser told journalists.

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