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.
Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan has visited the victims, who were injured in June 23 train derailment in Moulvibazar and admitted to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College and Hospital.
Either the lines were faulty or the alignment of the coach wheels were disoriented, says rail secretary. Rescue operation is underway and optimism is that the lines might be restored by tonight.
Three people were killed as Dhaka-bound international passenger train Maitree Express rammed a mini-truck at an “unauthorised” level crossing in Kamarkhand upazila of Sirajganj yesterday afternoon.
At least six passengers were killed and more than 20 injured yesterday after an express train derailed in eastern India's Bihar state, officials said.
Three people, including an infant, were killed and another was seriously injured as they were run over by a locomotive in Chattogram's Sitakunda last night.
A five-year-old girl is crushed under the wheels of a train at Tejkunipara in Dhaka’s Tejgaon.
A man dies after being run over by a train in Khilkhet area of Dhaka.
Two children reportedly died after being hit by a footbridge when they were travelling on the roof of a train on Tuesday night.
Four people died and 26 were injured when they jumped off a runaway train in Tongi of Gazipur yesterday.
Four people are killed and at least ten injured as a commuter train derailed in Tongi, Gazipur.