Five people including four of a family suffered burns in a fire believed to have originated from an electric short-circuit while charging a battery-run auto-rickshaw in Dhaka’s Kamrangirchar area early this morning.

Relatives of many of those who are missing in the Narayanganj factory fire today blocked the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in protest of the incident and in demand of finding their loved ones.

At least 49 bodies were recovered from the six-storey food factory building in Naryanganj's Rupganj this afternoon taking the death toll to 52.

Three people died after jumping off the roof of a six-storey building on fire in Narayanganj’s Rupganj yesterday evening.

Two women workers have died after jumping from the roof of a six-storey building when a fire broke out at a food factory in Narayanganj’s Rupganj this evening.

A fire broke out at the warehouse of Globe Pharmaceutical Company Ltd in Dhaka's Tejgaon area this afternoon.

At least 398 people were killed and 423 were injured in 327 road accidents across the country last month, Road Safety Foundation -- a non-government organisation -- said today.

A fire that broke out at the United Hospital in Manikganj was brought under control yesterday night.

​​​​​​​The death toll from the Moghbazar explosion rose to 12 as another injured died in a Dhaka hospital last night, nine days after the incident.

Four workers sustained burn injuries following an explosion in Nur Paper Mill at Kanchpur of Sonargaon in Narayanganj district early today.

A man was dead after an unidentified vehicle hit his bicycle in Dhaka’s Badda area early today.

Counterterrorism officials will interrogate Titas Gas employees in connection with the Moghbazar explosion that left 11 persons dead.

Five people were killed and five were injured in a collision between a truck and an ambulance carrying a cancer patient in Tangail this morning.

Two days after a deadly explosion in a building at Dhaka’s Moghbazar area, another body was recovered from the debris today -- raising the death toll to eight.

Rescue workers scouring the debris of a collapsed condo building in a Miami suburb said they heard sounds in the rubble overnight, as officials yesterday raised the number of people unaccounted for to 159 and the confirmed death toll to four.

With most of its previous decisions unimplemented, a taskforce, led by Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, is going to sit for its third meeting today.

At least six people, including a minor girl and a police officer, were killed and 10 others were injured yesterday in separate road accidents in Chattogram and Brahmanbaria.

Three unidentified bodies were found in the Naf river in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila yesterday, said police.

At least 177 people were killed by lightning strikes, mostly farmers at different parts of the county while 47 others were wounded in the last four months since March.

Two children and a 65-year-old man were killed after they were electrocuted by a live wire that fell from an electric pole because of a lightning strike in the capital’s Malibagh Chowdhury Para.