Man killed in Dhaka road accident

A pillion passenger of a motorbike was killed as he fell from the vehicle being hit by a truck at Faridabad in the city’s Shyampur area early Sunday.

The deceased was identified as Md Qurban, 30.

Md Nuruzzaman, sub-inspector of Shyampur police station, said Qurban fell from the bike and crushed under the wheels of the truck around 12:15am.

Later, he was taken to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital where doctors declared him dead around 2am.

Police seized the truck but could not arrest its driver.