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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Five people were killed and 15 others injured in three road crashes in Mymensingh, Dhaka and Gazipur yesterday, according to our correspondents.

The boys drowned in a pond while their family members were attending Jummah prayers