A private university student was killed as a covered van hit the motorbike carrying her on Gabtali-Sadarghat road in the capital’s Beribadh area on Friday night.
The deceased, Sanjida Akter Tamanna, 27, an honours final-year student of North South University, was a pillion rider of the motorbike.
She hailed from Noakhali’s Sonaimuri upazila and used to live with her family in the capital’s Kamrangichar.
Akter Hossain, sub-inspector of Lalbagh police station, said the accident occurred at about 10:00pm when the speeding covered van crashed into the motorbike in front of one Shamim Garment on the road, leaving her critically injured.
She was first taken to a local hospital and later shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital at about 1:00am where doctors declared her dead, he said.
The body was kept at the hospital morgue for post-mortem examinations.