At least 519 people died and 961 suffered injuries in 458 accidents across the country in August this year, Road Safety Foundation, a non-government organisation, said in a press release today (September 3, 2022).
Another victim of the Mirsarai train-microbus collision lost the battle for life at Chattogram Medical College Hospital yesterday, raising the death toll in the tragedy to 13.
Accidents at unprotected level crossings continue to claim lives as decisions taken at an inter-ministerial meeting around one and a half years back to curb such fatalities remained largely unimplemented.
A worker of an iron workshop died after falling from the roof of a running train in Laksham upazila of Cumilla early today.
A former principal of Ispahani Girls' School and College died after a train hit him in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar area this morning.
Three persons died under the wheels of two separate trains in the city’s Kuril area since last evening.
Four people have been killed and two injured as a locomotive hit a battery-run auto-rickshaw in Pirgachha upazila of Rangpur.
She tried to prevent her son from dying by suicide.
Two people are killed after they were hit by a train in Nakhalpara area of Tejgaon, Dhaka.
At least 519 people died and 961 suffered injuries in 458 accidents across the country in August this year, Road Safety Foundation, a non-government organisation, said in a press release today (September 3, 2022).
Another victim of the Mirsarai train-microbus collision lost the battle for life at Chattogram Medical College Hospital yesterday, raising the death toll in the tragedy to 13.
Accidents at unprotected level crossings continue to claim lives as decisions taken at an inter-ministerial meeting around one and a half years back to curb such fatalities remained largely unimplemented.
A worker of an iron workshop died after falling from the roof of a running train in Laksham upazila of Cumilla early today.
A former principal of Ispahani Girls' School and College died after a train hit him in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar area this morning.
Three persons died under the wheels of two separate trains in the city’s Kuril area since last evening.
Four people have been killed and two injured as a locomotive hit a battery-run auto-rickshaw in Pirgachha upazila of Rangpur.
She tried to prevent her son from dying by suicide.
Two people are killed after they were hit by a train in Nakhalpara area of Tejgaon, Dhaka.
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has expressed grave shock at the fatal train accident that left at least 16 people dead at Kasba upazila of Brahmanbaria and said it is an outcome of the government’s failure in governing the country properly.