At least three people were killed and more than a dozen others injured in two separate road accidents in Jamalpur and Manikganj yesterday, according to the reports from our correspondents.

Three injured are receiving treatment at Jamalpur General Hospital

Police say driver lost control after a tyre burst

Four workers died in separate incidents at three factories in Mymensingh’s Bhaluka upazila yesterday, with two of them suspected to have suffocated after inhaling toxic gas while cleaning an effluent treatment plant (ETP) tank.

Two HSC examinees were killed when their motorcycle collided head-on with a pickup in Shibpur upazila of Narsingdi while they were returning from their examination centre yesterday.

Separate incidents at ceramic, textile and garment units

Battery-run rickshaw strikes motorcycle from behind, causing fatal head injuries

Police say motorcycle collided with a pickup truck

A 22-year-old garment worker was killed after falling from the doorway of an intercity train while returning home from Dhaka in Netrokona early yesterday.

Two schoolchildren drowned in a beel in Raipura upazila of Narsingdi yesterday morning, a day after four female madrasa students died in separate drowning incidents in the same upazila.

A 26-year-old man has died after reportedly falling into the Sapmara Canal in Mohanganj upazila of Netrokona.

Police suspect the 26-year-old accidentally fell into a canal

A bus crashed into an ambulance carrying the body of a 17-year-old girl, who died of kidney failure, killing her grandparents, a cousin, and the driver in Pabna yesterday.

Her son and sister remain critically injured at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital

Two others are undergoing treatment at hospital

Electrical short circuit suspected as cause of the fire

The victims were the ambulance driver and the grandparents of the child whose body was being transported

The deceased were identified as Rabiul Alam Raju, a journalist at Praner Bangladesh, and Sakibul Hasan at Sangbad Diganta

No casualties; cause of the blaze, extent of damage yet to be determined

Nine firefighting units battled the blaze for around three hours; cause and extent of damage yet to be determined.