Six people were killed and four persons injured in road accidents in three districts yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.

Five fishing trawlers capsized at different points of the Bay of Bengal from noon to evening this evening adjacent to Kuakata in Patuakhali today (August 19, 2022).

An eight-year-old madrasa student died this evening, hours after a covered-van hit him in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area.

Two fishermen died and two others went missing after a trawler carrying 16 fishers capsized amid a heavy storm in the Bay of Bengal today (August 19, 2022), police said.

Four tea-garden workers died today (August 19, 2022) in a hillside collapse in Kalighat of Moulvibazar’s Srimangal upazila.

The crane that toppled and dropped a girder segment on a car killing five did not have a fitness certificate and the man operating it had no training to do the job, Rab said yesterday.

Three people died after being struck by lightning in Patuakhali.

A fire broke out at a packaging factory in Konapara area of Dhaka this morning.

A Dhaka tribunal directed owner and driver of Suprobhat Paribahan Ltd to pay Tk 1 crore as compensation to the family of Pintu Sheikh, who was run over and killed by one of its buses in 2016.

The chief engineer of Roads and Highways Department and the managing director of Dhaka Bus Rapid Transit Company Ltd were asked to explain Monday’s incident that killed five people in the capital’s Uttara.

A local journalist was killed and four other people were injured after a truck hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Shajahanpur upazila of Bogura this afternoon (August 17, 2022).

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) have arrested nine people in connection with the incident that left five people dead and two others injured after a segment of a box girder of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project fell from a crane on a private car in Dhaka’s Uttara on August 15, 2022.

The gateman of the rail crossing and microbus driver are responsible for the train-microbus collision at the Mirsarai Borotakia rail crossing that killed 13, a probe committee has found.

Ten people, including students of Dhaka University, were injured after a tyre of a DU bus exploded in Jatrabari area of Dhaka this morning.

A Supreme Court lawyer today filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its order on the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) project to give Tk five crore as compensation to the families of the five persons who were killed after a segment of a box girder of the project fell from a crane on a car in Dhaka's Uttara area on August 15.

For Ria, the newlywed who narrowly escaped death during Monday’s accident in Dhaka’s Uttara, trauma and tragedy knew no bounds.

Physical work of the entire Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Line-3 project will remain suspended until foolproof safety measures are in place, the authorities decided yesterday.

Four people were killed and 21 injured in road accidents in three districts during the last two days, according to reports from our correspondents.

A schoolboy died from snake bite in BSIC Industrial area of Jhenidah town yesterday morning.

A woman was shot dead allegedly by her son following a dispute over property in Patiya upazila of Chattogram yesterday.