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…
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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…
Cops ‘block’ food, bottled water supply to Khaleda’s office
Law enforcers on Wednesday night blocked the supply of food and bottled water to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s office meant for her office staff and security personnel. As a van carrying packets of cooked food and bottled water reached in…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
16 killed in 3 truck accidents in as many districts
Sixteen people were killed and four others injured in truck accidents in Tangail, Naogaon and Manikganj districts on Wednesday. In Tangail, 10 people, including four members of a family, were killed and three others injured in a fatal road accident…
Body formed to probe Jhalakati road crash
A probe committee has been formed to investigate the reason behind the Tuesday’s road accident in Rajapur upazila that left eight people killed and 25 others injured.
Traffic sergeant killed in Faridpur road crash
A traffic sergeant was killed as a truck crashed into him at Piarpur on the Faridpur-Nurumia Bypass Road in the district town on Wednesday morning.
8 killed 40 hurt as bus plunges into ditch in Barisal
At least Eight people were killed and 40 injured as a bus lost control and plunged into a roadside ditch at Biswasbari in Rajapur upazila of Barisal district on Tuesday afternoon. Four deceased passengers out of the eight so far…
Cotton factory catches fire in B’baria
A fire broke out in a cotton factory in Kalibari area of Sarail upazila on Monday morning.
4 bodies recovered from along rail tracks in city
The bodies of four unidentified people, including two of women, were found, along railways, in different areas of the capital in just 24 hours’ time till Monday noon. Sub-inspector Rafiqul Islam of Kamalapur Government Railway Police Station said they recovered…
5 killed in Ctg bus-auto-rickshaw collision
Five people were killed and another was injured in a collision between a bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Chittagong-Cox’s Bazar Highway in Satkania upazila on Saturday evening. The deceased could not be identified immediately.
7 killed 14 injured in Jessore, Rajshahi, Dhaka road mishaps
Seven people were killed and 14 others injured in road accidents in Jessore, Rajshahi and capital Dhaka on Friday. The dead included four in Jessore, two in Dhaka and one in Rajshahi. In Jessore, four people, including a student of…
Six crushed under wheels of train in Joypurhat
At least five people were killed and 30 others injured as they fell off a freight train and went under its wheels in Panchbibi upazila in Joypurhat on Thursday afternoon. Four of the deceased were identified as Sadequl of Puranpoil…