UNB, Savar :
A woman was killed inside a moving bus and her father was pushed off it by some bus employees, including the driver, on Dhaka-Tangail highway at Moragang on Friday night.
The deceased was identified as Jarina Khatun, 45, daughter of Ali Akbar, 75, hailing from KhajKawali village in Chowhali of Sirajganj. Jarina along with his father came to visit her daughter Rozina’s house at Ashulia from Sirajganj, said Rizaul Haque Dipu, officer-in-charge of Ashulia Police Station. In the evening, they boarded a Tangail-bound bus from Unique area for returning home.
At one stage, the bus driver, its helper and four other people attacked Jarina and her father.
They beat them up and snatched their mobile phone sets and cash, he said quoting Jarina’s father Akbar.
Later, they pushed Akbar off the running bus in Ashulia bridge area, leaving him injured.
When Ali Akbar informed the matter to patrol police, they recovered Jarina’s body from Moragang area near the highway around 8:30 pm. “The body bore injury marks on it’s neck,” said the OC adding that she might have been thrown off the bus after being strangulated to death.
