An employee of a newspaper office was killed in a road accident on Mayor Mohammad Hanif flyover in Dhaka this morning.

Deceased Nazim Uddin, 35, was a senior executive of English daily Dhaka Tribune.

“Bus ran over Nazim when he fell on the road after his motorcycle was hit by the same bus around 10:00am” Azizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Jatrabari Police Station, told The Daily Star.

Nazim was rushed to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital where the doctors declared him dead, the OC added.

The bus was seized and the driver detained soon after the accident.