Dhaka, Feb 20 (UNB) – At least eight people suffered burn injuries as a bus caught fire from a leaked gas pipeline in the city’s Dhanmondi area on Wednesday afternoon. Mizanur Rahman, duty officer at the Fire Service Central Control…
Category: Accidents
Making Shajahan head of committee on road mishaps slammed
Dhaka, Feb 18 (UNB) – An opposition MP criticised the government in parliament on Monday for making former minister Shajahan Khan the head of a 15-member committee to make recommendations for curbing road accidents and restoring discipline in the transport…
5 killed in Cumilla bus-truck collision
Cumilla, Feb 17 (UNB) – At least five people were killed and 10 others injured when a bus crashed into a truck from backside on Dhaka-Chattogram highway at Gangrai in Chauddagram upazila on Sunday morning. The deceased were identified as…
Fire at Chattagong slum, eight dead
Chattogram, Feb 17 (UNB) – At least nine people, including seven members of two families, were burned to death and several others injured as a deadly fire broke out at Bheramarket slum in Chaktai area early Sunday. Seven of the…
Russian citizen electrocuted at Rooppur power plant site
Pabna, Feb 16 (UNB) – A Russian citizen died from electrocution at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant site in Ishwardi uapzila here on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Zeleski Bhatzism, 34, an installer of ‘Tret Roshim’ farm. He used…
112 killed a year in waterway accidents, Minister says
Dhaka, Feb 14 (UNB) – A total of 4,732 people were killed in 639 waterway accidents in the country over the last 42 years. State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury came up with the statistics in parliament while responding…
Big fire at Suhrawardy Hospital
Dhaka, Feb 14 (UNB) – A big fire broke out at Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital in the capital on Thursday afternoon. The fire originated at a storeroom on the first floor of a new building of the hospital around…
5 BCL, Jubo League men killed in Khulna road crash
Khulna, Feb 11 – Five leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League and Juba League were killed in a collision between a truck and a private car on Rupsha bridge bypass road at Harintala in the city on Sunday night.…
3 Army men killed in Noakhali road crash
Noakhali, Feb 8 (UNB) – Three army personnel were killed and nine others injured in a road accident in Subarnachar upazila here on Friday afternoon. The deceased were identified as sepoys Mamun, Foyez and Firoz of the Engineer Corp-21 of…
2 killed in Turag River boat capsize near Dhaka
Savar, Feb 7 (UNB) – A madrasah student and an unidentified man died as a boat capsized in the Turag River here on Thursday afternoon. The madrasah student was identified as Towhidur Rahman, 11. Atiqur Rahman Khan Shanta, chairman of…
Reckless driving victim Rajib’s case report on Mar 13
Dhaka, Feb 06 – The submission of investigation report in connection with the case of Titumir College student Rajib was yesterday deferred to March 13. Magistrate Sarafuzzaman Ansari of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court of Dhaka fixed the new…
Medical examiner: North Texas man killed when e-cig explodes
Fort Worth, Feb 6 (AP/UNB) — A medical examiner says a North Texas man was killed when an e-cigarette exploded in his face. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office reports 24-year-old William Brown of Fort Worth died Jan. 29, two…
2 killed in Gopalganj bus plunge
Gopalganj, Feb 5 (UNB) – A bank official and a woman were killed and 20 others injured after a bus plunged into a roadside ditch in the Sadar Upazila on Tuesday morning. The deceased are Nurul Islam, 40, son of…
Free visa, illegal hiring behind rising worker accidents
Bahrain, Sunday, Feb 2 – Illegal hiring of workers and employing free-visa labourers are major challenges facing authorities trying to curb accidents at work sites, according to a top official. A number of companies bring in workers on daily wages…
Bus-Microbus collision kills four in Chittagong
Chattogram, Feb 03 (UNB) – At least four people were killed and 10 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a microbus on Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway at Bhaer Dighi village in Patiya upazila on Sunday. The identities…
Truck-covered van collide killing driver, helper in Gazipur
Gazipur, Feb 03 – A truck driver and his helper were killed as the vehicle collided head-on with a covered van on Dhaka-Tangail Highway at Naotana area in Kaliganj Upazila on Saturday night. The identities of the deceased could not…
Two riders killed as truck plunges into ditch near Dhaka
Savar, Jan 29 (UNB) – Three brick kilns workers and a truck driver, were killed as a truck plunged into in a roadside ditch in Ashulia Boro Bridge area near Bypail-Abdullahpur highway early Tuesday. The deceased were identified as workers…
US-Bangla crash: Distracted pilot, bad runway approach seen
Report unilateral, did not mention ATC’s fault, says Bangladesh official Dhaka, Jan 28 – The US-Bangla Airlines aircraft was misaligned with the runway and its pilot was disoriented and tried to land in “sheer desperation” when it crashed last year…
JSD leader Kanak killed in elephant attack in Darjeeling
Kushtia, Jan 26 (UNB) – Syed Saimun Kanak, a central leader of Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal (JSD), was trampled to death by a wild elephant in Darjeeling, India on Friday. Quoting Kanak’s wife Mala Saimun, Kushtia district unit Jasad president Golam…
13 Comilla accident victim families to get Tk 100000 each
Dhaka, Jan 26 (UNB) – The government will provide Tk 1,00,000 to each families of the brick kiln workers who were killed when a coal-laden truck overturned at Chouddagram upazila in Cumilla on Friday. Besides, the families of the injured…
3 of a family die in Dhaka’s Buriganga River boat capsize
Keraniganj, Jan 26 -Three members of a family died and a minor went missing as a boat capsized in the Buriganga River on Friday night. The deceased were identified as Motiur Rahman Moti, 55, his wife Rozina Begum, 42, and…
Eight of a family burned in Narail gas cylinder fire
Narail, Jan 25 (UNB) – Eight members of a family sustained burn injuries in a fire that broke out from a gas cylinder at their house of Sadhukhali village in Sadar upazila on Friday noon. The injured are Abdul Fakir…
13 workers killed in Cumilla road crash
Cumilla, Jan 25 (UNB) – At least 13 brick-kiln workers were killed and five others injured when a coal-laden truck overturned on the labour shed of a brick filed on Dhaka-Chattogram highway at Narayanpur in Chouddagram upazila on Friday. The…
Six of a family among 7 killed in Laxmipur road crash
Seven people, including six members of a family, were killed when a truck rammed a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at West Mandarin in Sadar upazila early Wednesday.
4 killed in Noakhali road crash
Four people were killed and two others injured when a bus collided with an auto-rickshaw at Nirwarispur in Begumganj Upazila on Monday.
72 shanties gutted in N’ganj slum fire
A fire that broke out at Chandmari slum in Fatulla early Monday gutted 72 shanties.
Tragic end of parents, daughter 6 as Natore Truck hits bike
Three members of a family were killed when a truck rammed a motorbike at Bashbaria in Bagatipara upazila on Sunday.
Mexican pipeline explosion kills 73, leaves nightmare of ash
Gerardo Perez returned Saturday to the scorched field in central Mexico where he’d seen an illegal pipeline tap burst into flames to see if he could recognize missing friends. He couldn’t. Only a handful of the remains still had skin.…
Fire breaks out at closed jute mill in Chittagong
A fire broke out at a closed jute mill in the city’s AK Khan area on Friday afternoon.
Cargo plane crash in Iran kills 15, leaves 1 survivor
A decades-old Iranian Boeing 707 military cargo plane reportedly carrying meat from Kyrgyzstan crashed on Monday while trying to land west of Iran’s capital, killing 15 people on board and leaving a sole survivor, authorities said.