TK 1.5 lakh will be provided to family members of each of the deceased in the fire on Barguna-bound MV Abhijan-10 launch in Jhalakathi.

Pathorghata Upazila Nirbahi Officer Hossain Mohammad Al Mujahid and his wife who were onboard the MV Abhijan-10 narrowly escaped the fire that caught the launch early today.

The Ministry of Shipping today formed a seven-member probe committee to investigate the fire on a Barguna-bound launch in Jhalakathi.

At least 37 passengers were killed after a fire broke out in the engine room of a launch on the Sugandha River near Jhalakathi Sadar upazila early today.

At least five people were killed in road crashes across the country yesterday, report our correspondents.

A surveyor died after falling from a mother vessel at the outer anchorage of Payra Port in Kalapara upazila on Wednesday night.

An HSC examinee was killed and two others were injured as a CNG-run three-wheeler carrying her fell into a river in Tangail’s Mirzapur upazila today.

An operator died during a “pneumatic test” at a cylinder manufacturing plant of Jamuna Gas in Bogura’s Shajahanpur upazila this morning.

Two youths died after an unidentified vehicle ran over their motorcycle on Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar Highway around 1:00 am today.

A man died after a garbage truck of Dhaka South City Corporation allegedly hit him in Wari area this morning.

Around 150 people are in shock and despair, after the buildings and tin-roofed houses they live in tilted at Chattogram city’s Majirghat area on Monday night. They have no idea about what will happen to their homes, and have now taken shelter at their neighbours’ houses.

Three buildings and five tin-roofed houses were evacuated in Majirghat area of Chattogram yesterday hours after they tilted to one side amid the excavation work of a nearby canal.

At least five people were killed and 11 injured in accidents across the country in last two days, report our correspondents.

Five people were slightly injured while trying to get out hurriedly after a fire broke out at Rangpur Medical College Hospital yesterday morning.

A fire that broke out on the third floor of Rangpur Medical College Hospital this morning has been brought under control.

A woman was killed in a fire that broke out at Akbarshah area at the port city yesterday morning.

Two people died in a fatal road accident in the capital’s Banasree Staff Quarter Road yesterday morning.

A female passenger and the driver of a CNG auto-rickshaw were killed after a three-wheeler collided head on with a passenger bus on Banasree Staff Quarter Road in the capital today.

Two people were dead as a truck hit a battery-run easy-bike in Satmail area of Jashore Sadar upazila last night. Two others were also injured.

Two university students were killed in separate road accidents in Noakhali and Bogura yesterday.