Three passengers of a battery-run autorickshaw were killed while three others were injured when a truck hit them on the Thakurgaon-Panchagarh highway in Thakurgaon’s Sadar upazila today.

The fire which broke out at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Tangail General Hospital has been brought under control. No casualties have been reported so far, our correspondent reports.

Three persons suffered burns after a fire broke out in their tin-shed room in Dhaka's Sayedabad area early today.

The massive explosion that claimed 11 lives in the capital’s Moghbazar late last month resulted from the accumulation of a huge amount of methane gas from a leaked gas pipeline and sewerage line inside the building, says a probe report of the fire service.

The High Court yesterday came down hard on business organisations, including the Federation of Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industries, for not playing an effective role over the fire at a food processing factory in Narayanganj’s Rupganj, that killed 52 people and injured many.

A 19-member citizen’s committee was formed yesterday to look into the causes of the fire that swept through Hashem Food’s factory.

A pedestrian was killed after a motorcycle hit him while he was crossing the road near Jonaki Cinema Hall at Naya Paltan in the city today.

A platform of conscious and concerned citizens formed a 19-member committee to probe the devastating fire at Hashem Foods factory in Narayanganj that left some 51 workers, many of them children, dead on July 8. 

A cargo vessel capsized in the Bay of Bengal yesterday morning after hitting a sunken lighter vessel near Bhasanchar.

Two construction workers were killed and another one was injured after a wall collapsed on them in Bandar upazila of Narayanganj this afternoon.

A small-sized cargo vessel, carrying construction material for Padma bridge, is sinking in the Bay of Bengal after hitting a sunken lighter vessel near Bhasan Char this morning.

A man died after a truck hit a van in Dhaka’s Tejgaon area this morning.

Still reeling from Thursday’s fire tragedy, workers of Hashem Foods Limited now hang in the dark over their salary and Eid bonus payment, as the factory suspended its activities, and its owner and high officials were arrested.

The labour ministry yesterday formed a six-member panel to find out the causes of death and injury of workers at the factory fire incident of Hashem Foods at Rupganj in Narayanganj on July 8.

Two cattle traders were killed in a road accident at Fashitala area on the Rangpur- Dhaka highway early yesterday morning.

The labour ministry today formed a six-member panel to find out the causes of death and injury of workers at the factory fire incident of Hashem Foods at Rupganj in Narayanganj on July 8.

A man was killed after being hit by a goods-laden train in Dhaka's Malibagh area early today.

A month before the devastating fire at Hashem Foods Limited in Narayanganj, the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments visited the facility.

Two months ago, her husband fractured his leg in an accident on his way home from Dhaka to Rupganj.

At least three people were killed and three others injured when a sand-laden truck overturned and collided with a three-wheeler and a motorcycle in Lama upazila of Bandarban district yesterday.