Girl loses leg in Banani road accident

A teenage girl lost her leg as the wheels of a BRTC bus ran over it on the Airport Road in Banani of Dhaka last night.

The Uttara-bound BRTC double-decker bus from Mohakhali hit Rozina Akhter, 18, a housemaid, while she was crossing the road in Chairmanbari area around 8:30pm, her father Rasul Mia told The Daily Star today.

“Her right leg got severed from her thigh following the accident. Her physical condition is now stable but she is not out of danger,” Prof Abdul Gani Mollah, director at the National Institute of Traumatology & Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (Nitor), told The Daily Star.

Rozina was rushed to the hospital immediately after the accident.

During the accident, the rear wheels of the BRTC bus ran over her right leg after she fell on the road hit by the vehicle, Nazrul Islam, a witness, told The Daily Star.

Hailing from Dhobaura upazila of Mymensingh, Rozina had been working at the house of a journalist at Banani for nine years.

Soon after the incident, the passengers of the bus caught the driver and handed him over to police, a duty officer of Banani Police Station told The Daily Star.

A case was filed with the police station in this connection, the official said. 

On April 4, Rajib Hossain, a college student, had lost his right hand after it got stuck between two buses in the city's Banglamotor area. He died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital on April 17.