Four arrested over deaths of two students in bus accident

The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested two bus drivers and their two assistants with links to the deaths of two college students in a bus accident on Dhaka’s Airport Road.

Students from the college took to the streets after the accident and set fire to three buses. Which of the buses was involved in the accident would be determined after the arrests were made, said RAB’s spokesperson Mufti Mahmud Khan.  

“The four were arrested as part of an operation to detain the bus drivers and their assistants.”

RAB officials have yet to confirm the names and the identities of the detainees.

Mufti Mahmud said, “We will confirm everything later.”

A Jabale Noor Paribahan bus had struck and killed two students as they were standing at the foot of the Zillur Rahman flyover on Sunday. 

The dead had been identified as Abdul Karim and Dia Khanom Mim, students of Shaheed Ramiz Uddin Cantonment College.

Dia’s father Jahangir Alam filed a murder case against Jabale Noor Paribahan for causing her death through reckless driving, said Cantonment Police SI Umme Salma.

Students took to streets again on Monday morning, blocking Airport Road.

“We are trying to explain the situation to the students and remove them from the road,” said police investigation officer Riyad Ahmed.  “We cannot say much more at this point.”