A 55-year-old newspaper hawker died early today as a speeding truck hit his bicycle on the Dhaka-Aricha Highway in Savar.

A child was killed and his mother and sister were injured in a fire in Sreenagar upazila of Munshiganj.

Sixty-five-year-old Kulsum left her home at Postogola yesterday morning to visit her ailing sister living in Shyampur. She, accompanied by her niece Jahanara, took a rickshaw, which got on Postogola-Chashara road, a thoroughfare full of potholes.

A fire that broke out at a building in Sufia Kamal Hall of the Dhaka University campus tonight has been doused.

A clothing store owned by a union-level Puja Udjapan Parishad leader was gutted in fire in Gaibandha’s Gobindaganj upazila early today.

A child has been killed and his mother and sister were injured in a fire in Sreenagar upazila of Munshiganj.

At least four people were killed and seven injured in road accidents in two districts in the last two days, report our correspondents.

A man died and another was injured after a bus hit their motorcycle on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Dhaka’s Matuail area this afternoon.

At least three people died and five more were injured in separate road accidents last night in Sirajganj.

A man was killed and four others were injured in Sunamganj’s Joykolosh village during a clash over a road accident yesterday.

A youth was killed and two others sustained burn injuries in a gas explosion at a house in Chattogram city yesterday morning.

A man was killed and two others were injured in an explosion at a house in Chattogram city today.

Two persons of a family died and another suffered injuries when their motorcycle was hit by a truck in Jashore town last night.

At least seven people, including four members of a family, were killed and eight others injured when a speeding bus hit a truck parked along Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Mymensingh’s Trishal upazila yesterday afternoon.

At least 61 members of different forces, including 46 policemen, were killed in road accidents in the first nine months of this year.

Seven people, including two children, died and at least eight persons suffered injuries when a bus hit a truck parked on the highway in Mymensingh’s Trishal upazila this afternoon.

A medical student drowned in the River Jumauna in Bogura’s Sariakandi upazila today.

Three people were killed as a truck hit a rickshaw van carrying passengers and a motorcycle in Pabna’s Iswardi upazila yesterday.

Five people were killed in road accidents in two districts during the last two days, according to reports from our correspondent and a news agency.

The man who went missing after falling into a sewerage drain in Dhaka’s Pallabi area this morning, was rescued alive from a canal after six hours.