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Pickup collision killed auto-rickshaw driver in Azimpur
Greenwatch Desk
Accidents
2026-02-20, 5:06pm
An auto-rickshaw driver was killed as a pickup hit his vehicle near Azimpur Orphanage in Lalbagh in Dhaka.
The deceased identified as Amzad Hossain, 68, from Jainki village in Dohar upazila of Dhaka.
His son, Sakib, said his father left home in the morning as usual to drive his auto-rickshaw.
“A fast-moving pickup struck my father’s vehicle and fled the spot. He was severely injured and later died,” he said.
Hossain was rushed to the emergency department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital in critical condition where doctors declared him dead, reports UNB.
Inspector of DMCH police camp Md. Faruk said the body has been kept in the morgue and police have been informed for further investigation.