A woman has died after being thrown from a rickshaw during a bag-snatching incident in capital while returning from her Eid holiday, reports bdnews24.com.
The victim, Soheli Islam Soma (42), worked as a sales officer at Eskayef Pharmaceuticals, according to her relatives.
On June 6, Soma was returning to her home on Central Road with her college-going daughter after getting off a bus that had arrived in Dhaka from Parbatipur in Dinajpur, said her cousin Sarwar Parvez Sabuj.
As the autorickshaw carrying Soma and her daughter was passing near Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital, a group of motorcycle-riding muggers allegedly snatched her handbag and pulled it with force.
Soma, who was flung onto the road and struck her head on a divider, was admitted to Anwar Khan Modern Hospital in critical condition.
She died there on Thursday morning while undergoing treatment.
Her body was later taken to her maternal grandparents' home in Pabna's Ishurdi, where she was buried, Sabuj said.
The family had not filed any complaint with police as of Friday morning. No postmortem was conducted.
The area outside Suhrawardy Hospital falls under either Mohammadpur or Sher-e-Bangla Nagar police station jurisdiction.
Contacted over the incident, Mohammadpur Police chief Mezbah Uddin and Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police chief Monirul Islam said they were unaware of any such case.
Parbatipur Police chief Abdul Wadud said they had heard about the death but no formal complaint has been filed there either.
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