A young woman died after falling from an auto-rickshaw while a mugger attempted to snatch her bag near Uttara North Metro Station Thursday morning.
The deceased has been identified as Mukta Akhter, 21, wife of Limon Hossain. She was rescued around 1:45pm and rushed to the emergency department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), where doctors declared her dead on arrival.
According to her husband, Mukta was returning home from the market around 9:30am when a mugger grabbed her bag near the metro station.
“As the thief pulled at her bag, she fell from the auto-rickshaw and sustained serious injuries,” Limon said.
Locals immediately came to her aid and first took her to Bangladesh Medical College Hospital. As her condition deteriorated, she was shifted to another facility before being brought to DMCH, where she was pronounced dead.Mukta and Limon originally hail from Farhadpur village under Godagari Police Station in Rajshahi district.
The couple were living in a rented house in the Faydabad area of Dakshin Khan.
Inspector Md Faruk, in-charge of the DMCH police camp, confirmed that the body has been kept in the hospital morgue and that the incident has been reported to the relevant police station.
