Blogger dies while taking videos from a car A blogger died after being hit by an iron pipe while filming from a convertible car on top of the traditional Elliot Bridge (Baropool) in Sirajganj town on Saturday. The blogger Rabiul Azim Tanu, 35, was the son of late Liakat Ali of Gopinathpur village of Kalaroa upazila of Satkhira. Citing the witnesses, Sirajganj Sadar Police Station officer in charge Sirajul Islam said that on an invitation of his friend Moinuddin, 3 friends including Tanu, came from Dhaka to Sirajganj on Friday night.
On Saturday morning, four friends went for a drive in a convertible car while Tanu was filming the beauty of Elliot Bridge in the town from the top of the car. Suddenly, a iron pipe on the bridge hit the back of his head, leaving Tanu critically injured. Locals rescued him and took him to the Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib General Hospital in Sirajganj, where the physicians declared him dead.
On information, police visited the spot and recovered the body, he said. The body was handed over to the victim's family memebrs upon their request, said the OC. A case has been filed in the concerned police station in this regard, added the OC.
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