Six people were killed in a road accident in Bakey More area on the Mymensingh-Tangail Highway under Muktagacha upazila of the district this morning. The deceased were identified as Alal Uddin, 40, Samir Ali, 35, of Rampur village, Akbar Ali,…
Category: Accidents
5 killed as truck hits bus, autorickshaw in Naogaon
Five people were killed and 20 others injured in a triangular collision of a truck, a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Naogaon-Rajshahi highway in Mahadevpur upazila on Friday night.
Six killed, ‘many trapped’ in Mongla factory building collapse
Death toll in Mongla factory building collapse has climbed to six after rescuers found two more bodies. Many others are feared trapped under the debris of the under construction milling house of army-managed Mongla Cement Factory in Bagerhat. The roof…
One killed, 4 missing as trawler capsizes in Brahmanbaria
At least one person is dead as an overloaded trawler has sank in the Meghna River in Brahmanbarhia, police say. Four other passengers are missing. Ashuganj Police Station OC Abu Zafar said vessel named sideways and sank near the Ashuganj…
4 killed 5 hurt as autorickshaw crashed under truck in N’ganj
Four persons including a child were killed and five others injured following head-on collision between a truck and a baby taxi at Kornogop area on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Rupganj upazila this morning. The accident occurred when a Dhaka-bound truck (Chuadanga…
4 Bd nationals among 6 dead in Saudi fire
Six people, including four Bangladesh nationals, died in a fire that broke out at a furniture factory at Dallah Sanaya, Dammam city in Saudi Arabia before dawn on Monday. “Yes, four of them are Bangladesh nationals while two are from…
Padma launch capsize toll rises to 70
The death toll from Sunday’s disastrous launch capsize in the Padma River in Shibalaya upazila has shot up to 70. Deputy Commissioner of the district Rashida Ferdous said rescuers retrieved 28 bodies from the river from 4am to 10am on…
Two Dhaka highrise buildings catch fire
Two high-rise buildings–one at Gulshan-2 and another at New Eskaton Road in Dhaka city–caught fire in the city on Saturday morning. A fire broke out in a seven-storey commercial building at Gulshan-2 in the city on Sunday morning. Duty officer…
Ferry launch capsize toll rises to 69. Some still missing in Padma
The death toll in the Padma launch capsize rose to 69 on Monday morning as the sunken vessel was salvages and pulled ashore. The dead are mostly women and children Some other pasengers are still missing as a ferry launch…
‘3 Bangladeshis’ among 10 killed in Abu Dhabi building fire
Ten people have died in a building fire at the UAE, media reports say and at least three or them are Bangladeshi, the expatriates welfare minister says. The fire broke out at the building in Abu Dhabi’s Mussafah on Friday…
6 including Mother, son killed in Pabna road crash
Six people, including a woman and her son, were killed and two others injured as a truck rammed into a human hauler at Kashinathpur on the Pabna-Nagarbari highway in Sujanagar upazila on Wednesday morning. The deceased were identified as Runa,20,…
Nosimon driver killed in Faridpur road crash
A Nosimon driver was killed in a road accident at Gajaria on Faridpur Sadar- Charbhadrasan road here on Thursday.
3 killed 5 hurt as truck hits autorickshaw in Sirajganj
Three persons were killed and five other injured ,two of them seriously, in a road accident on the Bogra-Nagarbari Highway at Parkula Bazar area under Shahjadpur upazila of the district on Monday morning. he deceased were identified as Ibrahim Hossain,…
13 killed in devastating plastic factory fire in Mirpur, Dhaka
At least 13 people were killed and three others injured in a devastating fire that raged a plastic factory in the city’s Mirpur area on Saturday afternoon. The identities of the deceased could not be known yet, said Salimuzzaman, officer-in-charge…
4 traders killed, 4 injured as truck hits tempo in Jhenidah
From Shahnewaz Khan Sumon Jhenidah – Four betel leaf traders were killed on the spot, four others sustained injuries, three of them critically, when a betel leaf laden tempo was hit head on by a truck on Jhenidah-Kushtia highway under…
JCD New Market leader dies of ‘explosion injuries’
A student leader of JCD, Bnp’s student affiliate has died from wounds suffered during an explosion while reportedly ‘making bombs’ in a house at Old Dhaka’s Lalbagh. Mahbubur Rahman Bappi passed away around 6am Thursday, said SI Mozammel Haque of…
4 killed as truck hits auto-rickshaw in Tangail
At least four people were killed and two others injured as a truck collided with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Charbhabla near the Bangabandhu Jamuna Bridge (East) Police Station on Tuesday night. The deceased were identified as Golam Kibria,40, a resident…
3 killed in launch collision: Route permits suspended
Three members of a family were killed and seven others injured in the head-on collision between two launches in the Meghna River in Mohona area of Chandpur Sadar upazila early Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Sahana Begum, 60, and…
Train derails in Moulvibazar injuring 24 – line missing in Joypurhat
At least 25 passengers have been injured as the engine and 6 bogies of the Chittagong bound Udayan inter-city train from Sylhet derailed in Moulvibazar on Wednesday midnight. According to some sources fish plates of the rail track were missing.…
2 killed as car hits electric pole in Ctg
A private car crashed into a roadside electric pole on Airport Road in the city on Friday evening, killing its two passengers. The deceased were identified as Shahidul Islam, 44, son of late Altaf Hossain of Damarul of Naria in…
6 killed 10 injured in train cargo van collision at Kamalapur station
At least six persons were killed and ten others injured seriously in a collision between a Dhaka bound passenger train from Narayanganj and a container truck inside the Kamalapur Railway station on early Monday afternoon. The accident occured when a…
Autopsy suggests drowning caused Jihad death in well
With the completion of the autopsy on Jihad’s body on Sunday morning, the autopsy conductors at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) morgue came up with the suggestion that the four-year-old boy died from drowning. The autopsy was completed by a…
AirAsia flight QZ8501 from Indonesia to Singapore missing
An AirAsia flight travelling from Indonesia to Singapore has lost contact with air traffic control with 162 people on board. Flight QZ8501 lost contact at 07:24 (23:24 GMT), Malaysia-based AirAsia tweeted. Search and rescue operations are under way. Malaysia’s national…
Did rescuers’ mistake cause Jihad’s death 250 feet down the well?
The recovery of the body of 4-year-old Jihad from inside the 600-feet deep pipe of Railway’s deep tubewell at the Shahjahanpur Railway Colony by some local people a few minutes after the Fire Service abandoned the rescue operation on late…
BNP slams Asaduzzaman for saying case of Jihad was a rumour
Deploring the recovery of four-year-old boy Jihad’s body from a deep pipe in the city after long 23 hours at a private initiative, BNP alleged that the entire nation was aggrieved and upset with State Minister for Home Affairs Asaduzzaman…
Locals recover minor boy dead after rescuers give up
The body of the ill-fated 4-year old boy has finally been retrieved from the 600 feet water pump well by local youngsters soon after the rescue mission was abandoned by the Fire Service and Civil Defence and other related services.…
Drama in real life: Minor boy brought out dead from city well
The body of the ill-fated 4-year old boy has finally been retrieved from the 600 feet water pump well by local youngsters soon after the rescue mission was abandoned by the Fire Service and Civil Defence and other related services.…
3 siblings hurt as gas pipeline ignites in Keraniganj
Three siblings were injured as fire erupted from a gas pipeline at Par Gendaria Sarkarbari in Dakhkhin Keraniganj upazila of Dhaka district early Thursday.
2 Bangladeshi workers killed in Malaysia building mishap
Two Bangladesh workers have been killed after being trapped in wet concrete following the collapse of a floor being levelled at an LRT terminal construction site in Putra Heights near Petaling Jaya in Malaysia. The bodies of the workers were…
200 shops, 100 slum houses guttted in Ctg fire
At least 200 shops of a market and 100 shanties gutted as a slum caught fire at Barapol in the city’s Halishahar on Wednesday evening. Sub-assistant director of Chittagong Fire Service Jasimuddin said the fire broke out from the slum…