Dhaka, Aug. 16 -- A man was killed after being hit by an unidentified vehicle in the capital's Kadamtali area early Saturday.

The identity of the deceased could not be known yet.

Sub-Inspector Saiful Islam of Kadamtali Police Station said the accident occurred in the early hours of Saturday near Dhaka Match factory at Shyampur.

Nearly 700 killed in road accidents across Bangladesh in June

Police recovered an injured man and took him to the emergency department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) where doctors declared him dead.

The body has been kept at the hospital morgue for autopsy, he said.

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