Trucker held over 7 Comilla kids' death
This March 16 Star photo shows, locals set fire to a truck after it hit a school van, killing seven children, and fell into a small ditch on Dhaka-Noakhali highway near Natherpetua of Comilla.
Police have arrested the driver of a truck which hit a school van, killing seven children in Comilla in March.
Being tipped-off, law enforcers picked up Md Sohel, 30, of Noakhali, at the capital's Tejgaon Industrial Area on Sunday night, police said.
He was later sent to Comilla, said Md Moshiur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Moynamoti Highway Police Station.
Seven students of Natherpetua Model School in Monoharganj upazila were killed and four others including the school-van driver injured when the truck hit the van on Laksam-Noakhali highway in March.
Students and teachers of the school Monday afternoon brought out a procession and staged a rally demanding Sohel's death penalty, reports a correspondent from Laksam.
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