A lighter vessel carrying 800 tonnes of coal sank in the Bhairab river in Bhatpara area of Jashore's Abhaynagar early today

Three people including a member of Bangladesh Navy were injured as a speeding microbus hit a road divider on the approach road of the Bangabandhu tunnel under the Karnaphuli river in Chattogram this morning

A biker was killed and his pillion rider injured after a vehicle hit their motorcycle in Kurigram's Nageshwari upazila last night

A fire that broke out at a cotton factory in Kharajora area of Gazipur’s Kaliakor was brought under control after two hours

Over 7,902 people were killed in 6,261 road accidents last year, said a Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity (BJKS) report released yesterday.

Three people, including two college students, were killed in two separate road accidents in Nagarpur and Ghatail upazilas in Tangail yesterday.

Two died from burn injuries, among the 44 admitted patients, at Rangpur Medical College Hospital within the last two weeks

Three people, including two college students, were killed in two separate road accidents in Nagarpur and Ghatail upazilas in Tangail today.

A man died after being crushed under the wheels of a train in Chakaria upazila in Cox's Bazar this morning

Two children drowned in a pond in Purbo Kalchho village of Kachua upazila in Chandpur yesterday, said police.

“Fire, fire”. Sharmin Akter, 22, woke up hearing these desperate cries which shattered the stillness of the night in Mollabari Slum in Tejgaon yesterday. Her immediate thought was to save her one-and-a-half-year-old son, Nafi Hossain.

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Dr Kamal Uddin Ahmed has expressed deep concern over the deaths of a woman and a child and damages in a slum fire in Dhaka's Karwan Bazar area early today

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) has announced financial assistance of Tk 5,000 to each family affected by the fire that broke out early today at a slum in Karwan Bazar.

A five-member committee has been formed to probe the fire incident that occurred this morning at Mollabari slum adjacent to FDC gate in the city's Karwan Bazar area

Says DMP chief

A woman and a child were killed and four others were injured in a fire at a slum in Dhaka's Karwan Bazar early today

A woman died after falling from the eighth floor of a building in the capital’s Motijheel AGB colony yesterday.

Every evening, 37-year-old Dipu Sana, an official of Bangladesh Bank, would get off the bus and walk home, where her three-year-old son would eagerly wait for her.

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

A garment worker died after being hit by an ambulance in Gazipur this afternoon