Six trucks were burned in the fire that originated around 8:00am

Two workers of a garment factory died and three others were injured after a truck collided with a battery-run autorickshaw in Habiganj yesterday.

The interim government has admitted its failure to reduce road crashes and deaths last year, said Road Transport and Bridges Ministry Adviser Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan yesterday.

Around 10-12 people were on the speedboat

The deceased, Sagar Hossain,19, hailed from Ghugri Pantapara village in Maheshpur upazila. The injured, Rocky Hossain, 22, from the same area, is being treated at Maheshpur Upazila Health Complex.

Three of the victims died on Wednesday, and one died on Thursday

Four people were burnt to death, and seven others injured when an ambulance and two buses caught fire following a collision on the Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar yesterday.

A motorcyclist was killed as a bus hit his bike in Dinajpur yesterday.

Bangladesh witnessed 7,294 deaths and 12,019 injuries from a total of 6,927 road accidents in 2024, according to a report published by the Road Safety Foundation today

Three out of the four people injured were from the truck, while the other was the train driver Shamsul Haque

Three people were killed in a collision between a brick-laden truck and a passenger-carrying autorickshaw in Kaliakoir upazila of Gazipur yesterday.

The incident occurred around 2:00pm in front of Yasmin Spinning Mill in Gilaberaid village, located along the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in the upazila.

Five fire service units from Siddique Bazar Fire Station are currently working to extinguish the blaze

Two motorcyclists were killed in a head-on collision with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Sunamganj yesterday morning.

The accident occurred around 8:30pm in front of the Livestock Research Office in Panchbaria, said Jashore Kotwali Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abdur Razzak.

The incident occurred around 11:30am when Rajan was playing near a large stove used for boiling rice in the courtyard of his house, said his mother, Parveen Begum.

Electricity has been restored in Building 7, which had remained closed for 11 days, but water supply remains unavailable, delaying the resumption of full office operations, officials said today.

The number of road crashes and fatalities in Bangladesh increased last year, with motorcycle-related incidents accounting for nearly one-third of all crashes and casualties, according to the Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity.

The grim tally of road crashes and fatalities in Bangladesh in 2024 paints a harrowing picture. These staggering numbers are more than statistics; they are a wake-up call for a nation grappling with a systemic road safety crisis

The number of road accident casualties in Sylhet division rose in December compared to November 2024, according to a report of Nirapad Sarak Chai (Nischa), Sylhet