A schoolgirl was killed after being hit by a pickup truck on the Tangail-Jamalpur regional highway in Dhanbari upazila of Tangail. The accident occurred around 6:30 a.m. on Sunday when the Dhaka-bound pickup, reportedly driven by a sleeping driver, ran over the student. The victim was identified as 17-year-old Mosha Sadia Bokul, daughter of Md. Abu Sayeed Bokul from Bakulbari in Dhanbari municipality. Police and fire service personnel recovered the body and handed it over to her family.

According to Dhanbari Police Station Officer-in-Charge Md. Nurus Salam Siddique, the vehicle involved in the accident has been seized and brought to the station, while the driver remains at large. An unnatural death case has been filed in connection with the incident.

Authorities are continuing efforts to locate the driver as the investigation proceeds into the cause of the fatal crash.