The probe body formed by the shipping ministry has recorded statements of 22 eyewitnesses in connection with the MV Abhijan-10 launch fire at Jhalakathi that left at least 41 people dead.

Three people were killed and nine others injured after a train rammed into a bus stuck between two signal bars at a level crossing in Narayanganj this evening.

A Supreme Court lawyer today filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the authorities concerned to give Tk 50 lakh as compensation to the families of each victim who died in the deadly fire on the MV Abhijan-10 launch and Tk 20 lakh for each critically injured victim.

Pakhi and Hakim Sharif were done choosing a groom for their elder daughter Hafsa.

They were on their way to visit their grandfather’s house in Barguna’s Taltoli upazila. But as luck would have it, four year old twins Samia and Lamia never reached there, as they died in the MV Abhijan-10 launch fire.

As Hafeez Tuhin leapt from the launch after it had caught fire, he was still holding his wife Rizia Begum and their baby girl Tabassum’s hands.

“Hearing screams emanating from Sugandha river, my neighbours and I got up from our beds. It was obvious that something was wrong,” Md Aliul Islam Akan, a local of Diakul village of Jhalakathi Sadar upazila, recounted.

When the massive fire engulfed the ill-fated MV Abhijan-10 early Friday, Monika Rani Halder, 40, a high-school teacher of Barguna, could not find her 16-year-old son after a desperate search for 30 minutes in the launch.

A probe committee investigating the deadly fire on the MV Abhijan-10 has found engine faults that might have caused the fire. The two engines were changed last month without following the rules, officials said yesterday.

Monoranjan Hajong, the father of traffic police sergeant Mohua Hajong, lost one of his legs after getting hit by a car on December 3 at the capital’s Chairman Bari area.

Firefighters yesterday found the bodies of the brother and sister who were swept away by the strong current of the Sangu in Rowangchhari, Bandarban, on Friday afternoon. 

At least four workers sustained burn injuries in a gas explosion at Jamuna shipbreaking yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila yesterday morning.

Death toll from the fire on a launch in Jhalakathi now stands at 41, Saiful Hasan Badal, divisional commissioner of Barishal, confirmed to The Daily Star today.

Two siblings, who went missing in the Sangu river in Bandarban's Rowangchhari upazila yesterday, were found dead today.

A probe body, formed by the Ministry of Shipping to investigate the fire that broke out on the MV Abhijan-10 launch in the Sugandha river in Jhalakathi, has found some problems in the engine.

The bodies of twin sisters Samia and Lamia, who died in the MV Abhijan-10 launch fire in the Sugandha river in Jhalakathi, have been identified by their relatives today.

None of the 15 victims of MV Abhijan-10 fire, who were sent to Dhaka for advanced treatment, is out of danger, doctors have said.

At least four workers were burnt in a gas explosion at the Jamuna Ship-breaking Yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila this morning.

The Namaz-e-Janaza of 30 victims, who died in the fire on Barguna-bound launch MV Abhijan-10, was held on the premises of Barguna Circuit House this morning.

The death toll in yesterday’s fire that broke out in the engine room of a launch on the Sugandha river near Jhalakathi Sadar upazila rose to 38 as another injured died last night in a Dhaka hospital.