Mountaineer Ratna killed in Dhaka road crash

Mountaineer Reshma Nahar Ratna was killed as a microbus hit her on Lake Road, adjacent to Chandrima Udyan, in Dhaka on Friday morning.

She was riding a bicycle in the area, said pedestrians.

The passers-by took her to Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital where on duty doctors pronounced her dead, Mohammad Ibrahim, Sub-Inspector of Sher-e-Bangla Nagar Police Station, told The Daily Samakal.

Ratna was an acclaimed mountaineer.

She was also a teacher of Ayub Ali Government Primary School in Dhaka.

Her body was kept at the morgue of the hospital for autopsy, the SI added.