Police yesterday arrested the driver of the Hanif Enterprise bus that collided with a microbus in Rajshahi on Friday, leaving 17 passengers of the microbus dead, 11 of whom were burnt alive when the vehicle caught fire.

A devastating fire yesterday destroyed an 100-acre orchard of the Mro community who have been protesting the construction of a luxury hotel in Naitong area of Bandarban.

Yemen’s Huthi rebels have admitted their forces caused a fire that killed 45 people at a migrant centre earlier this month, saying more than a dozen soldiers and officials face punishment.

The intensive care unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital has no “emergency evacuation system”.

Two people were killed and 15 others injured as a bus caught fire on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Cumilla’s Daudkandi yesterday evening.

A daughter watched her mother being crushed to death between two buses, the drivers of which were competing to get ahead, at an intersection in Gulistan yesterday.

A garment factory employee died, 20 workers were injured and another 22 fell sick in a fire at the chemical warehouse of the factory in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila yesterday morning.

A railway wagon along with 22 carriages derailed and fell on the line in Milpara area of Kushtia yesterday.

A foreman died on the spot after a chunk of iron sheets fell on him at a shipbreaking yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila early yesterday.

Three people, including the wife and son of a newly-elected municipality mayor, were killed as a microbus and a bus collided head-on on the Dhaka-Khulna highway in Faridpur’s Nagarkanda upazila last night.

A newborn was killed and at least 15 others were injured when an ambulance collided head-on with a bus in Barishal’s Babuganj upazila yesterday afternoon.

At least six people were killed and at least 13 others injured when a Bogura-bound bus crashed into a truck coming from the opposite direction in Sherpur upazila of the district around 5:00am yesterday.

At least seven people were injured as a three-storey building, constructed on a pond without permission from the authorities, collapsed in Maddha Charail Playground area of Keraniganj yesterday.

Three students from Bangladesh died on Thursday morning in a car crash south of Arborg, Manitoba in Canada, reports CBC News Canada.

At least five Bangladeshi migrant workers were killed in a road accident in Oman yesterday.

At least six Bangladeshi migrants were killed in a factory fire at the Saudi Arabian city of Madinah on Wednesday night.

At least 10 people were killed and 14 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Jhenaidah, while six others died in separate road accidents in three other districts yesterday.

A father and his daughter were crushed to death by a truck after it ploughed into their roadside house in Pabna on Friday night.

Sylhet’s rail link with the rest of the country has been suspended since early yesterday when a freight train derailed in Fenchuganj.

Two workers of a poultry farm in Bogura’s Shajahanpur upazila were killed as a locally made lift at the factory fell free from the sixth floor yesterday.