A Bangladeshi female police official was killed in a road crash in Congo on Monday during her visit to a UN peacekeeping mission there.

Sources at the Police Headquarters here said Rowshan Ara Begum, Rector of Bangladesh Police Staff College and Additional Inspector General of Police, died in the road accident at Kinshasha in the morning, reports the UNB.

Rowshan Ara began her career in the police force in February, 1988 and served in various capacities, including Assistant Police Commissioner of the Accounts Section, Reserve Office, Traffic Division and Training Unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.