Five people were killed and two injured in road accidents in three districts yesterday, report our correspondents.

A woman was crushed under the wheels of a covered-van on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila today.

A man died after a car hit his bicycle in Dhaka's Kuril Bishwa Road area tonight.

Two brothers and their nephew drowned while catching fish in a canal during heavy rain in Cox’s Bazar’s Sadar upazila today.

A small bunker barge partially sank at the outer anchorage of Chattogram Port near Patenga sea beach yesterday afternoon, due to strong current in the sea.

At least 207 people were killed and 389 were injured in 158 road accidents in the country in 11 days – July 14 to 24 amid the Eid rush, Road Safety Foundation said Saturday.

A fire at Gafur Tower on Topkhana Road in Dhaka this evening was brought under control an hour after it broke out.

At least 207 people were dead and 389 were injured in 158 road accidents in the country over 11 days -- from July 14, Road Safety Foundation said today.

A motorcyclist was killed in a collision between a pickup and his bike on Dinajpur-Ranshia road at Boirchuna village in Pirganj upazila of Thakurgaon yesterday.

A probe committee of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) has recommended shifting the current locations of the ferry terminals on the Shimulia-Banglabazar route to avoid further collision between the vessels and the Padma bridge.

Four buses and a private car were gutted in two separate fires in the capital’s Motijheel and Kamalapur areas on Saturday and yesterday.

A man and his nephew died of electrocution in Gurudaspur upazila of Natore this afternoon.

Thirty-six rooms of a one-storey building have been gutted in a fire in the Fakhruddin Textile Mills area in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila.

Six automobile workshops along with two buses and a private car were burnt in a fire at Gopibagh in Dhaka this morning, Fire Service and Civil Defence sources said.

A worker died after falling from the roof of a cement factory’s silo plant in Bandar upazila of Narayanganj yesterday.

A probe committee formed after a ferry on Friday rammed a pillar of the under-construction Padma Bridge found that the master and quartermaster of the vessel were responsible for the mishap that left 20 people injured.

A fire broke out at a bus depot of Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) in Kamalapur area of Dhaka this evening.

The ferry hitting a Padma Bridge pillar occurred due to the master’s carelessness, Shipping Secretary Mohammed Mezbah Uddin Chowdhury said today.

Around one and a half years ago, Dhaka North City Corporation procured three turntable ladders for dousing flames at high-rise buildings.

At least six people were killed and one was injured after a truck hit a battery-run three-wheeler in Fakirhat upazila of Bagerhat yesterday morning.