Accidents

News Desk An elderly woman was killed and three others were injured as a building wall collapsed on its adjacent tin-shed building in Miapara area under Dakshinkhan thana in the city last night. Read More »

At least four people were killed and two others injured as a train hit an auto-rickshaw on unmanned Annadanagar level crossing in Pirgachha upazila on Monday. Read More »

Chittagong, March 22 – Three more people, injured in a road accident at Padua in Lohagara Upazila on Saturday night, died at the hospital, taking the death toll from the incident to 15. Read More »

Chitttagong, March 21 – At least 12 people were killed and two others injured in a fatal road accident at Padua in Lohagara Upazila on Saturday night as a truck hit a human hauler coming from the opposite direction. Read More »

Five people were killed and 12 others injured after a bus collided head on with a rod-laden truck on Khulna-Mawa highway in Kakdanga area in Fakirhat upazila. Read More »

At least four madrasa students were killed and 16 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck at Talukdar Bazar in Kamarkhand upazila on early Sunday. Read More »

Five people were killed and 12 others injured after a bus collided head on with a rod-laden truck on Khulna-Mawa highway in Kakdanga area in Fakirhat upazila. Read More »

The massive fire which broke out at Rupnagar Slum in the city’s Mirpur area on Wednesday morning has been brought under control after around three hours. Read More »

Dhaka, March 10 – An injured teacher of Willes Little Flower School whose left hand has been severed in a road accident was brought in Dhaka for better treatment, sources said. Read More »

Two persons including a college student were killed in separate road accidents in Noakhali and Cumilla districts today. In Noakhali, college student Naeem, 18, son of M Manik of Iarpur village in Senbag upazila, died on the spot as a BRTC bus hit his motorbike near Choudhury Filling station in Tin Pukuria area of the upazila at around 9am, said ... Read More »

Dhaka, March 09 – The body of the missing bride who drowned after two boats capsized in the Padma River on Friday were found on Monday morning, raising the death toll from the incident to nine. Read More »

At least 10 people were killed in the collapse of Chinese hotel that was being used to isolate people who had arrived from other parts of China hit hard by the coronavirus outbreak, authorities said Sunday. Read More »

The bodies of two people who went missing after two boats capsized in the Padma River on Friday was recovered on Saturday, raising the death toll from the incidents to three. Read More »

Dhaka, March 06 – Fourteen people were killed and nine others injured in road accidents in Habiganj and Brahmanbaria districts on Friday. Read More »

At least 534 people were killed and 1,169 others injured in 504 road crashes in February last, said Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity, a passengers’ welfare platform. Read More »

Netrokona, March 01 – A pickup van collided head-on with a truck in Durgapur Upazila on Saturday night killing six students and injuring 20 others. Read More »

Eight people were killed and several others injured in separate road accidents in Cumilla, Rajshahi, Manikganj and Moulvibazar districts on Saturday. Read More »

Rangamati Correspondent Members of Bangladesh Navy and Fire Service on Tuesday morning retrieved the bodies of a woman and her son from the Sarafvata river in Rangunia upazila in Chattogram five days after a boat sank in the Karnaphuli River in Chandraghona area here in Kaptai upazila. Read More »

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard recovered the bodies of two people, believed to have been the victims of trawler capsize of February 11, from Paschimpara beach in St Martin’s Island in Teknaf upazila here on Monday, raising the death from the accident to 21. Read More »

Narayanganj Correspondent A sexagenarian woman, who sustained burn injuries with seven other family members at a house in Narayanganj early Sunday, died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). Read More »

Narayanganj Correspondent About 30 shanties were gutted in a fire that broke out at a ‘jhut’ (garments scrap) warehouse in Isdiar Bazar area in Fatullah on early Sunday. Read More »

Rescuers are scouring the river on Saturday in search of a woman and her son who had been missing since an overcrowded tourist boat sank on the Karnaphuli River a day ago. Read More »

Comilla, Feb 14 – A student of Comilla University was killed and two others were injured as a Dhaka-bound bus hit an auto-rickshaw carrying them on Dhaka-Chattogram highway’s Nimshar area on Friday. Read More »

Five people, including three women, drowned as a boat capsized in Kaptai Lake in the district on Friday. Read More »

A mother and her daughter were killed in a road accident in Gobindaganj upazila on Tuesday night. Read More »

Dhaka, Feb 11 – The bodies of at least 15 Rohingyas were retrieved while 63 others rescued alive after a-Malaysia-bound trawler carrying them capsized near the Saint Martin’s island in the Bay of Bengal early Tuesday. Read More »

Three people suffered burn injuries as a LPG gas cylinder went off in a house at Mogoltuli of Agrabad area in the city on Monday. Read More »

Cumilla Correspondent Two people were killed when a bus hit a covered van from behind in Jagannathdighi area under Chouddogram upazila of Cumilla early Saturday. Read More »

Cox’s Bazar, Feb 08 – A bus plunged into a roadside ditch on Cox’s Bazar-Chattogram Highway in Baniarchhora in Chokoria upazila on Friday night killing four people and injuring at least 22 others. Read More »

Istanbul, AP/UNB. Feb 06 – A Turkish airliner skidded off a runway, crashed into a ditch and broke apart while landing in bad weather in Istanbul Wednesday, killing three people and injuring dozens more. Passengers had to scramble through the split fuselage to escape. Read More »