An elderly woman was killed during a stampede at a house in Bhobanipur area in Rajbari district town on Sunday morning while taking zakat money.
The incident happened at about 7am. She was around 60 years old It was learnt that around 5,000 men and women gathered at the house of Md Delwar Hossain, a prominent businessman in the Bhobanipur area, from the early morning as he was scheduled to distribute zakat money. There found huge crowd for zakat money. When he started distributing money among the poor people, suddenly an elderly woman fell on the ground amid the huge crowd. Another woman on the spot rescued her and took her to Rajbari Sadar Upazila Hospital where the on-duty doctor declared her dead.
Rajbari Police Station OC Md Iftekharul Alam said the body was kept at the hospital morgue.
Legal procedure will be taken after identifying the body, he added.