DNCC garbage truck driver held in Chandpur

Rapid Action Battalion members have detained a driver of a Dhaka North City Corporation garbage truck from Chandpur in connection with the death of Ahsan Kabir Khan in the city’s Panthapath area on Thursday.

The detainee was identified as Mohammad Hanif alias Fatik, 23, son of Kamal Mia of Cumilla district.

Tipped off, a team of Rab-2 conducted a drive in the area and detained Hanif from Haimchar upazila of the district on Friday night, according to a Rab press release.

Ahsan Kabir, 46, a reporter of ‘Daily Shangbad’ was going to his workplace in Mirpur from Moghbazar by a ride-sharing motorbike.

When the bike reached Panthapath area around 2:30 pm he fell down from the bike after being hit by a garbage truck of DNCC.

He was also run over by the truck as the driver kept driving the vehicle ignoring the accident.