Death

As many as 5227 people were killed and 6953 others injured in some 4702 road accidents across the country in 2019, according to a road safety advocacy group. Read More »

Tanzanian conservation authorities said on Saturday the world’s oldest free-ranging female black rhino has died in the Ngorongoro crater aged 57. Read More »

At least two people were killed and 20 others injured in a road accident in Kamaliarchar area of Sadar upazila on Friday morning. Read More »

Moscow, AP/UNB, Dec 27 – Almaty International Airport said nine people died on Friday in the crash of a Bek Air plane in Kazakhstan. Read More »

Three members of the same family are reported to have drowned at a holiday resort on the Costa del Sol in Spain. Read More »

Dhaka, Dec 22 – The bodies of two workers, who remained missing after a stone-laden trawler sank in the Padma River at Debgram Kawaljani in Goalanda Upazila of Rajbari district on Friday afternoon, were recovered on Sunday. Read More »

BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Sunday said people not only in Bangladesh but also across the world will remember Brac founder Sir Fazle Hasan Abed with reverence for his outstanding role in transforming society. Read More »

A farmer was killed in an elephant attack in Boalkhali upazila on Monday morning.The deceased was identified as Rupon Das, 55, son of Jatindra Das of Joystyapura village in the upazila. Read More »

Dhaka, Dec 15 – Five more victims of Keraniganj plastic factory fire succumbed to burn injuries yesterday. Among the five, four at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), and another one died at his home after release from the hospital on the day of the fire, raising the death toll to ... Read More »

Dhaka, Dec 15 – “Ten workers of an electric fan factory died from smoke inhalation,” said Mamunur Rashid, deputy assistant director of Gazipur Fire Service and Civil Defence. It was the third factory fire incident in the last four days in Dhaka and adjacent areas. Fire in Bangladeshi factories is quite common during the dry season, mainly because of lax ... Read More »

Dhaka, Dec 15 – A man died as he fell from the rooftop of a multistorey building in the city’s Shyampur area on Saturday night. Read More »

Manila, Xinhua/Unb, Dec 13 – At least six people, including four children, were killed in a crash involving multiple vehicles in Mindanao in the southern Philippines early Friday, police said. Read More »

Dhaka, Dec 6- Three people, including two women, were killed and two others injured when a microbus hit a covered van at Golchattar in Bhuapur upazila on Friday morning. Read More »

Two college students died on Friday and eight more fell sick a day after reportedly drinking spurious alcohol in Biara area of Kazipur upazila. The deceased were identified as Saddam Hossain, 21, son of Tozam Hossain, and Russel, 22, son of Korban Ali of the area. But police and upazila administration officials offered different versions about what had happened. Kazipur ... Read More »

At least three people were shot dead during a gunfight between two factions of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti (JSS) over establishing supremacy in Rajasthali upazila on Monday evening. The identities of the deceased could not be known yet. Officer-in-charge of Rajasthali Police Station Mafzal Ahmed Khan said the gunfight between the two JSS groups started around 5pm in remote ... Read More »

Chittagong, Nov 17, 2019 – At least seven people including a child and a government primary school teacher were killed and 15 others injured in a gas pipeline explosion in a house in Port City’s Patharghata area Sunday morning, police said. The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. Read More »

Two people were killed after a pick-up van plunged into a roadside ditch on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway at Korpai in Burichang upazila early Wednesday. Read More »

At least 16 passengers were killed and over 100 others injured in a fatal collision between two trains on Dhaka-Chattogram route in Mandbagh Railway Station in Kasba upazila early Tuesday. The deadly collision between Dhaka-bound Turna Nishita Express from Chattogram and Chattogram-bound Udayan Express from Sylhet took place around 3am, said Deputy Commissioner Hayat-Ud-Dowllah Khan, who visited the spot right ... Read More »

Dhaka, Nov 12 – The bodies of nine fishermen, who went missing in a trawler capsize in the Meghna River in Charfasson upazila of Bhola on Sunday, were recovered from the Machhkata River in Mehendiganj upazila on Monday night, taking the death toll from the incident to 10. Read More »

Dhaka, Nov 12 -At least 12 passengers were killed and over 100 others injured in a fatal collision of two trains on Dhaka-Chittagong route in Mandbagh area in the early hours of Tuesday. Read More »

Panchagarh, Nov 8 – A man was killed and another injured when a truck hit a motorbike on Boda-Debiganj road in Boda Upazila on Thursday night. Read More »

Dhaka, Nov 05 – The body of the former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation Sadeque Hossain Khoka is expected to reach Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 8:10 am Thursday and he will be buried at Jurain graveyard after asr prayer beside the graves of his parents, according to his family sources. Read More »

Dhaka, November 05 – Former mayor of undivided Dhaka City Corporation and BNP vice-chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka will be buried beside the graves of his parents at Jurain graveyard in the city as per his last wish. Read More »

A male patient was found hanging from the ventilator of the toilet of the Sadar Hospital on Wednesday night.The deceased was identified as Abdul Malek, 65, of Lasmanpur in Sadar upazila. Read More »

A lorry driver has been charged with the manslaughter of 39 people found dead inside a refrigerated trailer. Read More »

Dhaka, Oct 25 (UNB) – Actor, writer and director Humayun Sadhu died at a hospital in the city early Friday.Sadhu breathed his last at 12.30 am on Friday at Square Hospital. Read More »

Shariatpur, Oct 25 -The more bodies of three fishermen, who went missing following a collision between two speedboats in the Padma River in Jajira Upazila on Wednesday, were recovered on Thursday, raising the death toll from the incident to four. Read More »

Savar, Oct 25 – Police recovered the hanging bodies of a couple from a house at Buribazar in Ashulia here on Friday morning. Read More »

Dhaka Oct 24 (UNB) – Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday said several agencies are looking into the Bhola clash to find out what really happened. Read More »

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday said several agencies are looking into the Bhola clash to find out what really happened. Read More »