A diploma student, who was riding on the pillion of her friend's motorcycle, died as the vehicle skidded off road in Dhaka's Darussalam area early today.

Five people were killed and three injured in road accidents in two districts during the last two days, according to reports from our correspondents.

Three youths were killed as their motorcycle hit a roadside electric pole in Bagerhat’s Mongla area last night.

Two schoolbags on the ground by rail tracks. The body of a schoolgirl in her uniform. Broken tiffin boxes, food strewn over the stones, and a textbook right next to them.

Two children drowned in a pond near their house while playing in Fatikchhari upazila of Chattogram yesterday.

Two people sustained burn injuries after a gas cylinder exploded at the Steel Mill Bazaar area at Patenga in Chattogram tonight.

Two children drowned in a pond near their house while playing in Fatikchhari upazila of Chattogram this noon.

Three fifth graders were killed after being hit by a train in Bijoypur Cumilla South upazila of Cumilla district this morning.

A schoolboy was killed after a speeding truck hit him in Dinajpur’s Chirirbandar upazila yesterday, while a woman was killed in a separate road accident in Birampur upazila on Monday.

Police recovered bodies of a woman and a child from a swamp in Sreenagar upazila of Munshiganj yesterday. Identities of the deceased – a woman aged around 22 and a one year old girl -- could not be known immediately, said Mohammad Aminul Islam, officer-in-charge of Sreenagar Police Station.

A boy was burned to death as a fire broke out at a Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhia of Cox’s Bazar this afternoon.

Three more persons, burnt in a fire believed to have originated from a gas leak in Dhaka’s Rampura on March 3, died at a city hospital over the last two days.

A seven-month-old girl was burned to death after a fire broke out in a house in Kalapara upazila of Patuakhali this afternoon.

One more person, burnt in a fire that originated from a gas leak in Dhaka's Rampura on March 3, died at a city hospital this afternoon, taking the death toll in the incident to four.

Two siblings were injured when an abandoned bomb exploded at Natiabari area of Pabna’s Bera upazila this noon.

A woman and her son were run over by a pick-up van on Patuakhali-Kuakata Highway in Barguna’s Amtali upazila this morning.

Two persons died in separate road accidents in Dhaka’s Bhatara and Badda areas early today.

Two more persons, burnt in a fire believed to have been originated from a gas leak in Dhaka's Rampura on March 3, died at a city hospital last night.

Three men died when a tractor rammed their motorcycle on Saturday night in Brahmanbaria. 

A Chattogram court yesterday sentenced three siblings to death and another to life imprisonment in a case filed over the murder of a businessman in Chakaria upazila of Cox’s Bazar in 2016.The death row convicts are Abu Bakkar, Younus Hossain and Ibrahim Mostafa. Mohammad Sohaib was sentenced to life.