Three people, including bus driver Nuruzzaman and his helper Lalon, raped nurse Shahinoor Akter Tania inside the vehicle, hit her head with a blunt object and then threw her out so that the incident looks like a road accident, police said yesterday quoting the accused.

Grief and anger have gripped the family of Shahinoor Akter Tania, a nurse of Ibne Sina Hospital’s Kallyanpur branch who was raped and murdered allegedly on a bus on Monday night.

A young nurse died in mysterious circumstances in a passenger bus on her way home in Kishoreganj’s Katiadi upazila on Monday night.