"At one point, a person on fire jumped off a balcony of the building, screaming 'bachao'," said a witness

The five-member probe committee would be led by Lt Col Mohammad Tajul Islam Chowdhury, director (operations and maintenance) of Fire Service and Civil Defence

A massive fire ripped through seven top floors of a 13-storey residential building in the capital’s Gulshan last night, leaving at least one man dead and dozens injured.

Nineteen firefighting engines along with a team from Bangladesh Air Force brought the blaze under control at 11:00pm

Nineteen firefighting units are trying to douse the blaze that began around 7:00pm on the sixth floor of the 12-storey building on Road-104

The body of one of the three Bangladeshi students, who died in a tragic car crash in Toronto on Monday night, is scheduled to reach Dhaka from Canada on February 24.

A motorcyclist was killed after being hit by a covered van in Rangpur’s Kaunia yesterday.

A Chinese national was killed and three Bangladeshis were injured as a garbage truck hit a pickup van in Madaripur’s Shibchar yesterday.

A Chinese national was killed and three Bangladeshis were injured when a dump truck hit a pickup-van in Madaripur's Shibchar upazila this morning

A battery-run easy-bike driver was killed after a train hit the vehicle at an unmanned railway level crossing in Akkelpur upazila of Joypurhat today

"The truck driver fled the scene immediately. We are trying to identify the vehicle," said police.

The family had just attended a pre-wedding ceremony in the capital’s Uttara early yesterday.

Kumar Nibir, son of singer Kumar Bishwajit, is still in critical condition, while the families of the other three deceased Bangladeshi students in the fatal Toronto road crash have started the process of bringing the bodies back home.

A three-month-old child was killed in a clash between two neighbours in Mymensingh’s Dhobaura upazila yesterday.

At least eight people suffered minor injuries after the boundary wall of a house collapsed following a sewerage line explosion in Chattogram city early yesterday.

A huge quantity of oil that spilled from three wagons of a derailed train on Wednesday, has spread across areas covering 1.5 kilometres, threatening the local ecosystem.

Four persons were killed as a bus turned turtle on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Habiganj’s Bahubal upazila around 6:30pm yesterday.

Five firefighting units rushed to the spot around and brought the blaze under control around 11:33pm

Three died on the spot while another at a hospital

These canals are connected with each other and flow into the Karnaphuli river