Girl strangled to death by own scarf on rickshaw wheel

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UNB, Gazipur :
A schoolgirl was killed as her scarf got entangled with one of the wheels of an auto-rickshaw at Sonatala of
Kaliakoir upazila on Mouchak-Phulbaria regional road on Saturday The deceased was identified as Sadia Akhter, 10, a class V student of Pinprasit Government Primary School and daughter of Lokman Hossain, a resident of the area.
Sadia’s father Lokman said, the family was returning home from a visit to Sadia’s grandfather’s house in Thengarband area by an auto-rickshaw van on Saturday night. Suddenly, Sadia’s neck scarf got entangled with one of the wheels of the rickshaw, and at one point, her neck also got tied up in the mess at Sonatala, choking her to death.

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