Accidents & Fires

Accidents & Fires

Rab arrests driver who drove bus with torn-off roof

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has arrested the driver of a passenger bus that continued to travel for several kilometres despite its roof being torn off in a series of collisions on the Dhaka-Mawa Expressway in Sreenagar upazila of Munshiganj on April 17

11h ago

Driver killed as auto-rickshaw, car collide in Narsingdi

A CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver was killed and two other people injured in a head-on collision between a private car and the three-wheeler in Monohardi upazila of Narsingdi today

15h ago

3 of a family burnt in Mohammadpur gas cylinder blast

The explosion occurred around 4:00am on the ground floor of a three-storey building

19h ago

Three killed as microbus hits truck in Meherpur

Police have seized both vehicles involved in the incident

22h ago

2 girls heading to school killed in lightning strike

A lightning strike killed two girls and critically injured another while they were walking to their school in Pakundia upazila of Kishoreganj yesterday.

1d ago

Road accidents killed 583 in April: Jatri Kalyan Samity

Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity (BJKS), a passenger welfare platform, said that a total of 583 people were killed and 1,202 injured in 567 road accidents across the country in the month of April, citing media reports

1d ago

All five victims of Gazipur gas cylinder blast die

All five people, who suffered critical burns in a gas cylinder explosion in Mughalkhal in Gazipur's Joydebpur area on April 27, have died.

2d ago

3 killed in road crashes in 3 districts

The accidents took place in Thakurgaon, Dinajpur and Jhenidah

2d ago

Auto-rickshaw driver found dead

Police recovered the body of an auto-rickshaw driver from Uttar Mohammadpur village in Chatkhil upazila of the district yesterday. The deceased,

10y ago

Driverless train travels 27km backward in Rajbari

It was a bizarre sight when Rajbari people found a train running backward for 27 kilometers, crossing one station, and all this without the driver.

10y ago

Rape accused held

Police yesterday arrested a local leader of Swechchhasebok League on charge of violating a housewife at Hamcayapur in Shahbondegi union of Sherpur upazila.

10y ago

3 acid-burnt

Three people received severe burn injuries when criminals threw acid on them at Sadullahpur village in Tarakanda upazila on Friday night allegedly over a previous enmity.

10y ago

Colourful procession in Rangamati

Different communities of indigenous people bring out a colourful procession in Rangamati town yesterday marking their traditional

10y ago

‘Kamaruzzman's execution is needed to uphold '71 spirit’ (video)

Death sentence of Jamaat-e-Islami leader and war crime convict Muhammad Kamaruzzaman should be executed as soon as possible to uphold the spirit of the Liberation War in 1971, people on the streets share their sentiments.

10y ago

BGB deployed in Dhaka, Rajshahi, Ctg

Paramilitary force is deployed in Chittagong, Rajshahi and Dhaka city to ward off violence amid preparation of execution of war criminal Muhammad Kamaruzzaman.

10y ago

10 more returning home from Yemen

10 more Bangladeshis who were stranded in war-torn Yemen are due to arrive in Dhaka from Djibouti this evening.

10y ago

Faridpur bus crash driver held

Driver of the Faridpur bus accident that left 25 people dead is arrested from Sher-e-Bangla Medical College and Hospital in Barisal.

10y ago

Mother, son killed as lorry hits rickshaw

Four-year-old Hamim held on to the collar of his father Mainul's shirt tight as the father was giving him to his mother sitting on a

10y ago