16 people were rescued and another woman remains missing

Victim was collecting scrap near STS

A woman was killed after being run over by a Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) garbage truck in Dhaka’s Korail area yesterday.

A construction worker resting on a footpath in Baridhara was run over by a private car yesterday, killing him on the spot, said police. The incident took place around 5:30pm in the Baridhara Diplomatic Zone. Police identified the victim as Mehedi Hasan Mir, 24, from Nilphamari.

Another person injured in the explosion of CNG cylinders stored at a special lorry on the parking lot of Pretty Group premises in Savar’s Ashulia died yesterday.

The 30-year-old truck driver had suffered severe burns

Four Pretty Group factories remain closed for second day; workers’ organisations demand compensation for victims

Omar Sultan, a 38-year-old truck driver, was with colleagues at Pretty Group’s loading and unloading area in Jamgara, Ashulia, around 6:30pm on Sunday when, five minutes later, a massive explosion sent him fleeing.

Seven people were killed and several others injured after reportedly gas cylinders of a parked lorry exploded near a garment factory in Ashulia yesterday evening.

Three teenage schoolgoers drowned in the Meghna river in the Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj yesterday.

Four people were killed and 10 others injured when a Dhaka-bound bus collided head-on with an auto-rickshaw on the Dhaka-Kuakata highway at Dhulu Gazi’s intersection in Patuakhali on Saturday night.

No casualties; cause of the fire could not be known

Five bodies recovered from burnt vehicle

Dhaka-bound bus collided head-on with the three-wheeler before plunging into a roadside ditch, police say

Two siblings drowned in a newly excavated pond near their home at Ishwarpara village in Lalpur upazila of Natore yesterday afternoon.

At least four people were killed and another was critically injured in a collision between a bus and a private car on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Gajaria upazila of Munshiganj yesterday.

Fires reported in Mirpur, Badda, and Keraniganj

At least two were killed and five others injured when a speeding bus hit a parked truck on the Jamuna Bridge West Zone Highway in Sirajganj’s Kamarkhand upazila early Saturday

Another critically injured

Bus had been in police custody since September 3 road accident; cause of fire yet to be determined