The Supreme Court yesterday directed the United Hospital to pay Tk 25 lakh each in initial payment to the families of the four patients killed in a fire at its Covid-19 isolation unit on May 27 last year.

Rab arrested two men accused in a case filed over the devastating fire at an unauthorised chemical warehouse that killed five people in old Dhaka’s Armanitola on Friday.

A foreman of a shipyard died after a piece of iron sheet fell on him in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila on Monday.

A day labourer drowned while extracting stones from the Dahug river at Mandulpara village in Tentulia upazila of Panchagarh yesterday noon.

Government bodies concerned are apparently not identifying the bulk carrier that rammed a passenger launch in the Shitalakkhya in Narayanganj on Sunday killing 34 people.

Six more bodies were recovered from the Shitalakkhya yesterday morning, after Sunday’s passenger launch capsize.

At least eight people were killed when falling trees crushed them during nor’westers in Gaibandha yesterday afternoon.

The bodies of five women were recovered after a Munshiganj-bound launch, carrying over 50 passengers, capsized in the Shitalakkhya river in Narayanganj yesterday.

Police yesterday arrested the driver of the Hanif Enterprise bus that collided with a microbus in Rajshahi on Friday, leaving 17 passengers of the microbus dead, 11 of whom were burnt alive when the vehicle caught fire.

A devastating fire yesterday destroyed an 100-acre orchard of the Mro community who have been protesting the construction of a luxury hotel in Naitong area of Bandarban.

Yemen’s Huthi rebels have admitted their forces caused a fire that killed 45 people at a migrant centre earlier this month, saying more than a dozen soldiers and officials face punishment.

The intensive care unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital has no “emergency evacuation system”.

Two people were killed and 15 others injured as a bus caught fire on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Cumilla’s Daudkandi yesterday evening.

A daughter watched her mother being crushed to death between two buses, the drivers of which were competing to get ahead, at an intersection in Gulistan yesterday.

A garment factory employee died, 20 workers were injured and another 22 fell sick in a fire at the chemical warehouse of the factory in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila yesterday morning.

A railway wagon along with 22 carriages derailed and fell on the line in Milpara area of Kushtia yesterday.

A foreman died on the spot after a chunk of iron sheets fell on him at a shipbreaking yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila early yesterday.

Three people, including the wife and son of a newly-elected municipality mayor, were killed as a microbus and a bus collided head-on on the Dhaka-Khulna highway in Faridpur’s Nagarkanda upazila last night.

A newborn was killed and at least 15 others were injured when an ambulance collided head-on with a bus in Barishal’s Babuganj upazila yesterday afternoon.

At least six people were killed and at least 13 others injured when a Bogura-bound bus crashed into a truck coming from the opposite direction in Sherpur upazila of the district around 5:00am yesterday.