One-year-old Akifa, who was thrown on to the road when a bus hit her mother in Kushtia died at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, early Thursday morning.
On Tuesday last, a passenger bus hit the mother and the child near the Chourhas area.
Both the mother and the baby were critically injured. The whole incident was caught on CCTV of a nearby jewellery shop.
The bus heading towards Faridpur hit the woman without blowing the horn to warn her to move away from the road.
Later the woman and the child were admitted to the Kushtia General Hospital and when the latter’s condition deteriorated, she was brought to Dhaka medical.
Inspector of Kushtia model thana, Sheikh Obaidullah said: if the family lodges a case then legal steps will be taken.”