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.

Five people were killed and five were injured in separate road accidents across the country over the last two days.

The man who was driving the private car that critically injured Monoranjan Hajong in the capital’s Banani area on December 3 has filed a general diary with Banani Police Station, claiming his motorcycle was going the wrong way before hitting the car.

Two tourists died after a truck hit their motorcycle on Sylhet-Tamabil Highway in Gowainghat upazila of Sylhet this afternoon.

Three passengers of a CNG-run autorickshaw were killed and two others critically injured after a truck ran over the vehicle on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Brahmanbaria's Sarail upazila this morning.

A fire that broke out at the warehouse of Nasir Glassware and Tube Industries at Gorai under Mirzapur upazila in Tangail, has been doused finally after 14 hours of frantic efforts.

As many as eight people were killed in road accidents across the country in just one day yesterday, report our correspondents.

A woman and her two-year-old son died while her husband and daughter were injured when their microbus was rammed by a train at a level crossing in Dakkhin Khan, Gazipur, early yesterday.

A fire broke out at a jute warehouse at Kathattola of Dewliabari area in Gazipur this afternoon.

Bodies of the five workers, including two teenagers, who were killed in a fire at a disposable plastic factory in Adamdighi upazila on Tuesday, have been identified and handed over to their respective families yesterday.

A man died after being hit by a speeding motorcycle in Dhaka’s Khilkhet area this morning.

A fire broke out in the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) of Barishal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital last night.