Dhaka: A fifth grader girl was killed after being run over by a microbus in the city’s Uttara on Tuesday.

Victim’s father Faijul Islam, Assistant Editor of the Daily Ittefaq, said his only daughter Tahsina Suchi, 10, class-V student of Diabari Milestone School, was hit by microbus of a shooting unit near bridge no-10 in Rajuk Apartment area in the morning, reports the UNB.

Suchi was rushed to Bangladesh Medical College Hospital with her head bruised, where the duty doctor pronounced her dead, he said.

Officer-in-Charge of Turag Police Station Nurul Mottakin said police seized the microbus from the spot but its driver managed to flee.

The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for autopsy, said the OC.