Young Woman Hit by Truck in Bangladesh

suspect_zero · #1 ● 08-04-2018, 09:32 PM

August 4th, 2018

Gazipur, Bangladesh

A covered van ran over Farhana Alam Mim, 19, a second-year student of Safiuddin Sarker Academy and College, around 12:30pm while she was crossing the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway near Barobari of Gazipur's Joydebpur, leaving her critically injured, police said.

She was rushed to Tongi Government Hospital where doctors pronounced her dead.

Salehuddin Ahmed, deputy superintendent of Gazipur Traffic Division, said some locals, including students, caught the driver, beat him up and handed him over to police.

They also set the van on fire.

When a fire service vehicle went there to douse the flames, the angry locals vandalised it as well, said witnesses.

Later, the locals blocked the highway near the spot for nearly two hours, said Salehuddin, adding that it created long tailbacks on both sides of the road.

There was also another road accident death today in the area and several more throughout the past week, which have sparked multiple protests from students over road safety.

In addition to the pics, first video is the aftermath/victim, 2nd video is after she's removed and the subsequent burning of the truck and 3rd video is locals keeping the driver tied up.

TypeOnegative · #2 ● 08-04-2018, 09:39 PM

Short trial in that community that’s for sure.

SLAPAPPY · #3 ● 08-05-2018, 01:31 AM

Why is there a hole full of shit there........ never mind!

**kellyhound** · #4 ● 08-05-2018, 08:14 AM

such a shitty government and crooked police there.

ore than 100 people were injured in Bangladesh on Saturday after police fired rubber bullets at student protesters, a doctor and witnesses said, a major escalation in a stand-off between the government and demonstrators.

For the last week students have brought parts of the capital Dhaka to a standstill with a protest against poor road safety after two teenagers were killed by a speeding bus.

Bangladesh’s transport sector is widely seen as corrupt, unregulated and dangerous, and as news of the teenagers’ deaths spread rapidly on social media they became a catalyst for an outpouring of anger against the government.

On Saturday the protests took a violent turn in Dhaka’s Jigatala neighborhood.

Witnesses said police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at demonstrators and that alleged pro-government activists attacked youngsters, including some of those rushing to nearby hospitals for treatment.

Police denied they fired rubber bullets or tear gas at the protesters.

"It’s not true. Nothing happened at Jigatola," Dhaka police spokesman Masudur Rahman said.

However hospital staff said dozens of people had been injured, some seriously.

"We have treated more than 115 injured students so far since the afternoon," said emergency ward doctor Abdus Shabbir, adding some sported injuries consistent with rubber bullets.

"A few of them were in very bad condition," he added.

A protester said students were holding protests peacefully on the road when they were attacked.

"We all are feeling threatened here. We wanted a peaceful protest. We don’t want any trouble occurring around here. Yet rubber bullets were shot at our brothers," Sabbir Hossain, a student, said.

The government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has ruled Bangladesh since 2009, but in recent months it has been shaken by mass protests demanding an end to a decades-old system of discriminatory civil service recruitment.

Several powerful ministers have pleaded with students to return to their classes, amid worries the unprecedented teen outrage could turn into widespread anti-government protests ahead of general elections due later this year.

But their pleas have had little effect.