A seven-year-old schoolgirl died after being hit by a BRTC bus while crossing the road at Kamalapur intersection in the capital鈥檚 Motijheel area on Monday morning.
The deceased is Roshni Pal, a Class I student of Motijheel Government Model School and hailed from village Patgaon in Tongibari upazila in Munshiganj district.
She used to live with her family in the Manda area of Mugda in the city.
The schoolgirl was critically injured in the accident that occurred at about 9:30am, said witnesses.
She was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital鈥檚 emergency department by her grandmother Rekha Biswas.
Doctors declared her dead at about 10:30am, said Md Faruk, in-charge of the DMCH police outpost.
The body has been kept at the hospital morgue for post-mortem examinations, he added.
