Four workers sustained burn injuries following an explosion in Nur Paper Mill at Kanchpur of Sonargaon in Narayanganj district early today.

A man was dead after an unidentified vehicle hit his bicycle in Dhaka’s Badda area early today.

Counterterrorism officials will interrogate Titas Gas employees in connection with the Moghbazar explosion that left 11 persons dead.

Five people were killed and five were injured in a collision between a truck and an ambulance carrying a cancer patient in Tangail this morning.

Two days after a deadly explosion in a building at Dhaka’s Moghbazar area, another body was recovered from the debris today -- raising the death toll to eight.

Rescue workers scouring the debris of a collapsed condo building in a Miami suburb said they heard sounds in the rubble overnight, as officials yesterday raised the number of people unaccounted for to 159 and the confirmed death toll to four.

With most of its previous decisions unimplemented, a taskforce, led by Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal, is going to sit for its third meeting today.

At least six people, including a minor girl and a police officer, were killed and 10 others were injured yesterday in separate road accidents in Chattogram and Brahmanbaria.

Three unidentified bodies were found in the Naf river in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila yesterday, said police.

At least 177 people were killed by lightning strikes, mostly farmers at different parts of the county while 47 others were wounded in the last four months since March.

Two children and a 65-year-old man were killed after they were electrocuted by a live wire that fell from an electric pole because of a lightning strike in the capital’s Malibagh Chowdhury Para.

A project director of Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation was killed in a road accident in Sirajganj yesterday morning while on the way to a meeting in the capital.

Eleven people were killed and 10 injured in five road accidents in Tangail, Gazipur, Feni and Gopalganj yesterday amid the Covid-19 “lockdown”.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion yesterday arrested the owner of the speedboat that caused an accident and claimed 26 lives in the Padma’s Kathalbari point at Banglabazar in Madaripur’s Shibchar upazila.

Two crew members of an oil tanker were killed after a fire broke out in the engine room yesterday morning.

The Supreme Court yesterday directed the United Hospital to pay Tk 25 lakh each in initial payment to the families of the four patients killed in a fire at its Covid-19 isolation unit on May 27 last year.

Rab arrested two men accused in a case filed over the devastating fire at an unauthorised chemical warehouse that killed five people in old Dhaka’s Armanitola on Friday.

A foreman of a shipyard died after a piece of iron sheet fell on him in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila on Monday.

A day labourer drowned while extracting stones from the Dahug river at Mandulpara village in Tentulia upazila of Panchagarh yesterday noon.

Government bodies concerned are apparently not identifying the bulk carrier that rammed a passenger launch in the Shitalakkhya in Narayanganj on Sunday killing 34 people.