The Mercantile Marine Office of the Department of Shipping has formed a three-member committee to investigate the fire incident in Saint Martin’s island-bound luxury cruise ship MV Bay-1 on Friday night.

Two children have drowned in separate incidents by falling into ponds at Kalapara upazila in Patuakhali.

A 70-year-old woman was found dead in her house in Manikganj municipal area yesterday.

A man was crushed under the wheels of a train in Madarganj village of Thakurgaon Sadar upazila yesterday morning.

Rana Dasgupta, general secretary of Bangladesh Hindu-Buddhist-Christian Oikya Parishad, has alleged that the tragic Chakoria road accident was not a mere accident, but rather a “pre-planned murder”, as circumstantial evidence indicates.

Two people were killed in separate road accidents in Chattogram yesterday.

A fire that broke out on a luxury cruise ship on the Chattogram-St Martin’s route early today, was fully doused.

Uni World Footwear Ltd at Ashulia in Savar where a fire broke out on Wednesday, killing three workers, had no proper documents and was running without maintaining fire safety rules.

The Coast Guard has recovered the bodies of two fishermen who went missing after a trawler capsized after getting hit by a launch in the Meghna River at Doulatkhan upazila of Bhola early today.

One more person, burnt in a fire originating from a gas cylinder in Narayanganj on February 20, died at a Dhaka hospital this afternoon.

A six-year-old boy died after an easy bike hit him at Kazirhat Bazar area of Zajira upazila in Shariatpur yesterday.

The funeral of Raktim Shil (32) was held at his village at Suajniapara of Malumghat around 10:30pm on Tuesday.

Five friends were in a cheerful mood as they attended a friend’s wedding ceremony, but they could not return home. Their lives were cut short by a road accident in Chandpur early yesterday.

A worker of the Rooppur Power Plant construction site died falling from the reactor building of the project on Wednesday.

A youth was killed as a truck hit him in Rangpur on Tuesday night. The accident took place at Kaunia bus terminal in the district.

Three workers were burnt to death after a massive fire broke out at a shoe factory in Savar’s Ashulia yesterday afternoon.

Three people died and two others remained missing as a trawler capsized in the Arial Khan river in Barishal yesterday.

A man was killed after being run over by a bus in Jhalakathi today.

Trucks run over 2 primary students in separate road accidents in Munshiganj

Fire Service and Civil Defence recovered three burnt bodies this evening from at a shoe factory in Ashulia of Savar this evening after fire engulfed the building.