A young Bangladeshi woman was killed in Canada’s capital Ottawa as a truck rammed her bi-cycle.
The deceased was identified as 23-year-old Nusrat Jahan, a Willis College student and daughter of a diplomat working for the Bangladesh High Commission in Ottawa, reports CBC News.
Nusrat had been studying accounting at Willis College.
According to the report, Nusrat was hit and killed while cycling on a segregated bike lane on her way to school on Thursday.
Melanie McGovern, who works in a building close to the crash site, heard the truck braking and ran outside.
“I heard a big brake, like very loud, and I heard someone screaming. So I just ran and came outside, and we saw that poor lady,” she said.
“In our family, she was the most beloved of all of us…because she was always the smallest,” the CBC quoted her brother Mohd Abdullah Al Nasser as saying.
“Everyone is devastated. We can’t believe that this happened,” he added.
Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson has expressed condolence.
Source: Ittefaq
