At least five people were killed in road crashes across the country yesterday, report our correspondents.

An HSC examinee was killed and two others were injured as a CNG-run three-wheeler carrying her fell into a river in Tangail’s Mirzapur upazila today.

An operator died during a “pneumatic test” at a cylinder manufacturing plant of Jamuna Gas in Bogura’s Shajahanpur upazila this morning.

Two youths died after an unidentified vehicle ran over their motorcycle on Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar Highway around 1:00 am today.

A man died after a garbage truck of Dhaka South City Corporation allegedly hit him in Wari area this morning.

Around 150 people are in shock and despair, after the buildings and tin-roofed houses they live in tilted at Chattogram city’s Majirghat area on Monday night. They have no idea about what will happen to their homes, and have now taken shelter at their neighbours’ houses.

Three buildings and five tin-roofed houses were evacuated in Majirghat area of Chattogram yesterday hours after they tilted to one side amid the excavation work of a nearby canal.

At least five people were killed and 11 injured in accidents across the country in last two days, report our correspondents.

Five people were slightly injured while trying to get out hurriedly after a fire broke out at Rangpur Medical College Hospital yesterday morning.

A fire that broke out on the third floor of Rangpur Medical College Hospital this morning has been brought under control.

A woman was killed in a fire that broke out at Akbarshah area at the port city yesterday morning.

Two people died in a fatal road accident in the capital’s Banasree Staff Quarter Road yesterday morning.

A female passenger and the driver of a CNG auto-rickshaw were killed after a three-wheeler collided head on with a passenger bus on Banasree Staff Quarter Road in the capital today.

Two people were dead as a truck hit a battery-run easy-bike in Satmail area of Jashore Sadar upazila last night. Two others were also injured.

Two university students were killed in separate road accidents in Noakhali and Bogura yesterday.

A 10-month-old child drowned in a bucket of water while playing at her house in Islampur area of Chapainawabganj town yesterday.

Kamran Hossain Mohan (23), a university student who changed his Facebook profile photo with a cryptic caption -- “Caption is pending” -- met a fatal road accident just an hour later, around 2:30 pm today.

After colliding with a sunken ship in the Mongla Port channel today, a vessel carrying furnace oil named “MT Monowara” was damaged.

A fire that broke out at a shoe factory in Nazirabazar area of Old Dhaka this evening is now under control.

A transport worker was killed and two other people were injured in an explosion at a motor workshop in Panchargarh’s Tetulia upazila today.