A primary school teacher from Bogura died after falling from a rickshaw when motorcycle-riding snatchers tried to grab her bag on Manik Mia Avenue near the Jatiya Sangsad in Dhaka early Saturday morning.
The deceased was identified as Mosammat Ranjina Parvin, 55, head teacher of Bagbari Government Girls' Primary School in Gabtali upazila of Bogura.
The fatal incident occurred around 6:00am in front of the South Plaza of the Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban, according to the police.
Mohammad Fazlul Karim, Additional Deputy Commissioner of Police (ADC) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Tejgaon Division, said that Ranjina Parvin and her husband Abdul Matin had travelled overnight from Bogura to Dhaka to seek medical treatment at the Ispahani Islamia Eye Institute and Hospital in Khamarbari area.
After arriving at the Gabtoli bus stand early in the morning, the couple took a rickshaw to head toward Khamarbari.
When they reached Manik Mia Avenue, motorcycle-riding snatchers suddenly grabbed and pulled Ranjina's bag, causing her to fall from the rickshaw and sustain a serious head injury.
She was rushed to Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, where doctors declared her dead.
The victim's body has been kept at the hospital morgue for autopsy.
"Police are working to arrest those involved," said ADC Fazlul Karim.
Police were reviewing CCTV footage from the area to identify and apprehend the suspects.
