Dhaka, April 26 -- As the coffin of assistant revenue officer Bullet Bairagi arrived at his ancestral home in Gopalganj's Tungipara, his wife Urmi Hira did not join the loud lamentations of the neighbours.

Instead, she stood in a state of stunned silence on Sunday, haunted by a single, agonising question.

"I just want to know what happened to him on Friday night," she said.

For Urmi, the tragedy is not just the loss of her husband, but the void of information regarding his final hours.

While the village of Babupara mourned a "brilliant son" and a "pride of the school", Urmi was left grappling with the fragments of a journey that ended on the shoulder of the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway.

The timing of the tragedy adds a layer of cruelty t...