Staff Reporter :
Agitating people on Friday set fire to a police microbus as it fatally hit a motorcyclist at Balutupa Bazar in Sadar upazila of Comilla district. The agitators also gheraoed the policemen.
Being hit by the microbus, the motorcyclist skidded off the roadside field and met the tragic end of his life on the spot.
According to witness, carrying four cops of Sadar North Police Station when the microbus chased and hit the motorcyclist, he was killed on the spot.
The microbus also got stuck with a roadside tree when it hit the motorbike that was driving by a youth. However, the identity of the youth has not been known yet.
As soon as the law enforcers tried to take away the body from the spot,
local people captured them and torched their microbus, local added.
Being informed a heavy contingent of police led by Abdullah Al Mamun, Additional Superintendent of Police rushed to spot and rescued the cops from the clutches of the angry people.
Talking to journalists, the locals said when the microbus carrying police chased and hit the motorcyclist it skidded off the roadside field.
“Police chased, hit and killed the youth in presence of us. Later police tried to vanish the body. As the local sensed the ill-motive, they caught the cops and torched the microbus,” a local told journalists.
Additional Police Super said at first the cops asked the motorcyclist to stop but he did not respond to the police order.
“As the youth defying the instruction ran his motorcycle hurriedly, police chased him. Being chased the youth lost his control and hit a tree which left him dead on the spot,” he said.
