A bus helper named Md. Raju, aged 29, died after falling from a moving passenger bus in Noakhali’s Sadar upazila on Wednesday night. The incident occurred around 9:30 p.m. near the Income Tax Office area of Maijdi Bazar on the Maijdi to Chaumuhani regional highway. Raju, son of Md. Sakhayet Ullah from Lakhinarayanpur village in Begumganj upazila, was working on a Sugandha Paribahan bus when he suddenly fell onto the road and was critically injured. Locals rescued him and took him to the 250-bed Noakhali General Hospital, where doctors declared him dead.

According to Chandraganj Highway Police Station Officer-in-Charge Mobarak Hossain Bhuiyan, police visited both the accident site and the hospital. Preliminary findings suggest that Raju may have fallen accidentally from the bus. Authorities have handed over the body to his family after completing legal formalities, and an investigation is underway to determine the exact cause of the accident.

The incident has cast a shadow of grief among Raju’s colleagues and relatives, while police continue their inquiry into the circumstances of his death.