Staff Reporter :
The covered van driver, who crashed Brac University student Fahmida Haque Labannya under wheel, has been detained by police from Savar on Saturday.
On Friday, police held, Suman, 23, the biker of the ride-sharing motorbike from Mohammadpur.In primary interrogation, Suman said that Labannya took the fatal ride from Shyamoli around 10:36am on Thursday, to go to Khilgaon. A jaywalker suddenly appeared in front of the bike, trying to cross the road near National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases in Sher-e-Bangla Nagar, prompting him to brake, he said.
Due to sudden brake, Labannya fell off the bike and a pickup ran her over, the police official said quoting the biker. Doctors declared her dead after passers-by took her to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital.
Labannya was a third-year student of computer science and engineering at Brac University.
The accident happened just a month after the death of university student Abrar Ahmed in a road crash that triggered mass protests over unsafe roads and poor traffic management.
Meanwhile, the students of Brac University staged a human chain in Mohakhali area on Saturday morning and demanded exemplary punishment of the driver.
