Staff Reporter :
Two homeless sleeping women were killed and another was injured as a private car drove into them on the footpath in front of the Supreme Court main gate in the city on Tuesday.
Shahera Khatun, 45, died on the spot while Hasina, 25, succumbed to her injuries on the way to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, said Bachchu Miah, in-charge of DMCH Police Outpost.
Shahbag Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abu Bakar Siddiqi said that the driver of the private car run over the three floating people around 1:00am while they were asleep on the footpath, leaving two critically injured. Another with minor injuries took primary treatment at the DMCH.
The police seized the car but its driver managed to escape soon after the accident.
Police detained a man who was in the back seat. They discovered the documents of the private car registered in the name of BRAC Bank Ltd.
