Tag: accidents

Two members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) battalion-16 were killed and four others injured as a grenade went off during training in Khagrachhari Cantonment on Sunday. The victims were identified as nayek subedar Abul Kashem, hailing from Chandina in Comilla,…

At least 15 shops were gutted and some others partially burnt as a fire broke out at Bandar area under Banaripara upazila of the district last night.

A woman was killed and another injured in separate incidents of lightning strike in sadar upazila on Saturday evening.

A police constable was killed as a truck crushed into him on the Dhaka-Tangail Highway in Kaliakoir upazila on Thursday morning.

At least 25 people were injured in a road accident in Bhalaipur area of Sadar upazila on Wednesday afternoon.

A teenage boy died after being struck by a thunderbolt at Udaypur village in Chhatak upazila on Tuesday.

Two people were killed and fiver others injured in separate incidents of lightning strike in Shalikha and Sadar upazilas on Monday evening.

At least four ceramic workers were killed and 20 others injured as a bus carrying them rammed into a tree on the Dhaka-Aricha Highway in Dhamrai upazila of Dhaka district on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Jahanara, 26, Rahim,…

Detective Branch (DB) of police in a drive seized 800-kg jatka and awarded two people one- year imprisonment each in Jhumur cinema hall area here last night.

A mother and her daughter were killed and two others injured when lightning struck them at Bangaon village under Bhaluka upazila of the district on Tuesday.

Three people, including a girl, were killed in separate incidents of lightning strike during a nor’wester that lashed different areas of Shibganj and Nachole upazilas on Sunday night.

A minor girl was killed in an accident at Beparipara on Jamalpur-Mymensingh road under Sadar upazila of the district on Saturday.

The death toll from Saturday’s launch capsize in Kolagachia river in Golachipa uapzila rose to 12 with recovery of five more bodies on Sunday morning. Officer-in-charge of Golachipa police station Fakhruddin said divers pulled out five bodies from the river…

The body of an unidentified youth was recovered from the Meghana river at Korbanpur in Sonargaon upazila here on Saturday night. Sonargaon thana officer-in-charge Md Rezaul Haq said being informed by locals, police recovered the body which was partially decomposed…

A warehouse of Bengal Group caught fire in the city’s Tejgaon Industrial area on Wednesday. Sources at the Fire Service Control room said the fire originated at the godown near BSTI office at about 5:20 pm. Being informed, eight firefighter…

Government agencies seized smuggled goods worth over Tk2.77 crore during different anti- smuggling drives in Comilla in March this year and arrested 173 people in this connection.

A man died from electrocution in Jhenidah town on Friday morning.

An electrician, who was burnt in Thursday night’s fire on a Titas Gas transmission line, has died in the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). Anwar Hossain, 38, died around 5:30am Friday, Saiful Islam, a sub-inspector with the…

A bank official was killed as a train hit him at Charkhutar intersection level crossing under Rajpara Police Station in the city on Monday morning. The deceased was identified as Humayun Kabir, 55, a resident of Hargram Munshipara in the…

Four students of a private university in Dhaka went missing and two others died as they drowned in the bay in Saint Martin Island here on Monday.

A bank official was killed as a train hit him at Charkhutar intersection level crossing under Rajpara Police Station in the city on Monday morning.

A woman and her grand daughter were burned to death as a fire broke out in their house at Tilakpur village in Dewanganj upazila here early Sunday.

At last eight shops were gutted by a fire that broke out at Nurnahar Market in the district town early Friday.