Poribesh Bachao Andolon (Poba) has formed a civic committee to investigate the fire on MV Abhijan-10 launch in Jhalkati district, which claimed 49 lives, injured around 100, and left several people missing.

Three teenagers, including two siblings, died after a fire broke out at a tin-shed room in Dhaka’s Uttara area early today.

Three officials of the Shipping Department and  BIWTA, four owners and four crew members of the MV Abhijan-10 are responsible for the fire on the vessel that killed 49, a probe committee has found.

At least 853 people were killed and 236 others seriously injured in workplace accidents last year, according to a survey by Bangladesh Occupational Safety, Health and Environment Foundation.

The death toll from MV Abhijan-10 launch fire in Jhalakathi rose to 49 as another injured died at a Dhaka hospital yesterday morning.

It took around one and a half hours to start the rescue operation for the MV Abhijan-10 launch fire. Fire Service and Civil Defence sources said although they had come to know of the fire within 15 minutes of its origination, they lacked the logistics required to fight it in the water on a cold winter night.

Three members of a family died and one was missing as a trawler capsized in the Kanthalia river in Cumilla’s Meghna upazila today.

The death toll from MV Abhijan-10 launch fire in Jhalakathi rose to 48 as another injured died at a Dhaka hospital this morning.

Different bodies exist in Bangladesh to ensure road safety, but they are not empowered and lack effective coordination to get expected outcomes.

Nine people, including three teenage boys, were killed, while many others injured, in five separate road accidents in Dinajpur, Barishal, Jashore and Bogura yesterday.

A fire that broke out at a Covid-19 dedicated hospital at Balukhali Rohingya camp, in Cox’s Bazar’s Ukhiya upazila this evening, was doused within an hour.

Four people, including three school students, were killed in separate road accidents in Birganj and Birampur upazilas of Dinajpur today.

At least 418 people were killed and 497 injured in 383 road accidents throughout December, the Road Safety Foundation said yesterday.

Three people were killed and another was injured in road accidents during the last two days, according to reports from our correspondent and a news agency.

The High Court over four years ago had asked the authorities concerned to give within 60 days a compensation of Tk 17.11 crore to the families of the victims of a 2003 launch accident in the Meghna river.

A police constable was killed and his cousin was injured after a truck hit them in Dumki upazila of Patuakhali today.

At least 418 people were killed and 497 injured in 383 road accidents last month, Road Safety Foundation said today.

Multiple incidents of fires were reported across the country, including several in the capital, over rogue sky lanterns crashing on rooftops and houses, during New Year’s celebrations in the early hours today.

Assistant Sub-Inspector Emadul Haque, who took the steering of a bus and killed two men after ploughing through a crowd, had physically assaulted the driver and helper of the vehicle.

At least five people were killed and 15 injured when a bus plunged into a roadside ditch beside Bonpara-Hatikumrul highway in Sirajganj yesterday morning.