Six more bodies were recovered from the Shitalakkhya yesterday morning, after Sunday’s passenger launch capsize.

At least eight people were killed when falling trees crushed them during nor’westers in Gaibandha yesterday afternoon.

The bodies of five women were recovered after a Munshiganj-bound launch, carrying over 50 passengers, capsized in the Shitalakkhya river in Narayanganj yesterday.

Police yesterday arrested the driver of the Hanif Enterprise bus that collided with a microbus in Rajshahi on Friday, leaving 17 passengers of the microbus dead, 11 of whom were burnt alive when the vehicle caught fire.

A devastating fire yesterday destroyed an 100-acre orchard of the Mro community who have been protesting the construction of a luxury hotel in Naitong area of Bandarban.

Yemen’s Huthi rebels have admitted their forces caused a fire that killed 45 people at a migrant centre earlier this month, saying more than a dozen soldiers and officials face punishment.

The intensive care unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital has no “emergency evacuation system”.

Two people were killed and 15 others injured as a bus caught fire on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Cumilla’s Daudkandi yesterday evening.

A daughter watched her mother being crushed to death between two buses, the drivers of which were competing to get ahead, at an intersection in Gulistan yesterday.

A garment factory employee died, 20 workers were injured and another 22 fell sick in a fire at the chemical warehouse of the factory in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila yesterday morning.

A railway wagon along with 22 carriages derailed and fell on the line in Milpara area of Kushtia yesterday.

A foreman died on the spot after a chunk of iron sheets fell on him at a shipbreaking yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila early yesterday.

Three people, including the wife and son of a newly-elected municipality mayor, were killed as a microbus and a bus collided head-on on the Dhaka-Khulna highway in Faridpur’s Nagarkanda upazila last night.

A newborn was killed and at least 15 others were injured when an ambulance collided head-on with a bus in Barishal’s Babuganj upazila yesterday afternoon.

At least six people were killed and at least 13 others injured when a Bogura-bound bus crashed into a truck coming from the opposite direction in Sherpur upazila of the district around 5:00am yesterday.

At least seven people were injured as a three-storey building, constructed on a pond without permission from the authorities, collapsed in Maddha Charail Playground area of Keraniganj yesterday.

Three students from Bangladesh died on Thursday morning in a car crash south of Arborg, Manitoba in Canada, reports CBC News Canada.

At least five Bangladeshi migrant workers were killed in a road accident in Oman yesterday.

At least six Bangladeshi migrants were killed in a factory fire at the Saudi Arabian city of Madinah on Wednesday night.

At least 10 people were killed and 14 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Jhenaidah, while six others died in separate road accidents in three other districts yesterday.