A female student of BRAC University was killed as a covered van crashed into her ridesharing motorbike in the city's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area yesterday. The deceased was identified as Fahmida Haque Labannya 21, a 3rd year student of CSE department of the university. Daughter of Imdadul Haque of Haripur village in Fulbari upazila of Mymenshing district, she had been residing in Shyamoli of the capital.

Police said she was going to her university by the motorcycle of a ridesharing service in the morning. After reaching the gate of the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD), the covered van dashed the bike from behind around 11:45am, police said, adding that the accident left the university student dead on the spot.