Driver, helper of truck that crushed fire-fighter Nayan sent to jail

A court here today sent to jail Belal Hossain 
Sumon, 36, and Farhad, 20, driver and helper respectively of the truck that 
crushed firefighter Sohanur Zaman Nayan while he was attempting to douse the 
devastating fire at the Secretariat.
 
Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Minhazur Rahman passed the order, as police 
produced the duo before the court and pleaded to keep them behind bars until 
the end of the probe in the case.
 
According to the case documents, the fire broke out in building number 7 of 
the Secretariat at 1.52 am. Members of the Fire Service and the Civil Defence 
reached the spot within two minutes after the fire broke out and Nayan along 
with his colleagues started to their action to douse the flame.
 
As Nayan was crossing the road with a water pipe to connect it with a fire 
engine, the speedy truck rammed and crushed him, leaving him critically 
injured. He was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where the attending 
doctors declared him dead.
 
The onlookers, on the other hand, managed to apprehend Sumon and Farhad as 
they tried to flee the scene and handed them over to police.
 
Fire Service and Civil Defence employee Ruhul Amin Mollah filed the case 
under the Road Transport Act.