An eight-year-old child was killed on Sunday morning in a road crash in Satkhira’s Shyamnagar.
The deceased was identified as Maria Akhter, daughter of Habibullah of Burigoalini union and a second-grade student at Kalbari Government Primary School.
According to locals, the child was playing by the roadside at Joliler Mor area where her parents were working. Suddenly a motor run van hit her causing serious injury.
She was rushed to Shyamnagar Upazila Health Complex where the on-duty doctor declared her dead.
Locals managed to seize the van but its driver, Sushant escaped.
Shyamnagar Police Station officer-in-charge (OC) Nazmud Huda said police were sent to the spot.
Legal action will be taken if a complaint is received from the family of the deceased, he added.
