The Kishoreganj nurse who was pushed off a moving bus after being raped has died of internal haemorrhage after suffering injuries on the head, says Civil Surgeon Habibur Rahman.
Speaking to Bangla Tribune on Sunday (May 12), he said, “The skull was broke due and the back of the head was fractured as well. She suffered profuse bleeding in her head, which was the cause of death.”
The autopsy report has been handed over to police, he said before adding that injury marks were found on several places of the body. “The autopsy found evidences of rape and murder.”
Asked whether it was a case of gang-rape, Civil Surgeon Rahman said, “We have send materials found on the body to Dhaka for DNA tests; that can be said once the report is with us.”
Sharmin Akhter Tania, 24, who worked as a nurse in a hospital in Dhaka was raped and pushed off a bus, while heading towards her hometown in Kishoreganj on May 6.
The perpetrators had tried to make it look like a road accident. They pushed Tania off the moving bus and then went back to that scene where a crowd had assembled, according to people familiar with the investigation.
They then offered to take the victim to the hospital but took her to a pharmacy instead where they were told to take her to the hospital, they said.
The incident sparked huge outrage across the county as different socio-cultural organisations and professional bodies formed human chains at different areas, including in Dhaka and Kishoreganj, demanding exemplary punishment of the criminals.
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