A bus crushed a bike and a motorcycle in Pirojpur, resulting in the death of about seven people. The accident occurred at around 12 noon on Friday in Beltala area of Pirojpur Sadar Upazila. Pirojpur Sadar police station in-charge (OC) Ashikuzzaman confirmed the death of seven people to Prothom Alo. He told that the people […]
Before the elections, workers in the readymade garment sector had launched a movement for salary increase. Every time workers have to take to the streets demanding increase in wages. There is no institutional arrangement here. This time too, instead of reaching a logical decision regarding wages, the owners' proposals were accepted. Meanwhile, police and armed […]
Workers blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Ghazipur on Saturday after a female employee was crushed by a municipal garbage truck in the morning. According to the police and workers, at around 8 in the morning a group of workers were crossing the road in Kunia Borobari area. Then a garbage truck of the Municipal Corporation […]
A man and his daughter died in a motorcycle accident on the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Expressway in Srinagar, Munshiganj this afternoon. The accident happened near Hasra Fish Market at around 1.30 am. The victims are Kamal Hossain, 31, of Ramjankathi area in Barishal’s Babuganj and his daughter Mahira Mahi, 10.
Four people were killed when a pickup van and a CNG-powered auto rickshaw collided in Mirzapur upazila of Tangail on Sunday. The accident occurred at around 4.30 pm on Gorhai-Sakhipur road in Telipara area of Banshtel Union of the upazila. The dead included three men and one woman.
A mountain of grief fell upon a family after the tragic death of two brothers including the groom in a road accident on the Dhaka-Khulna Highway in Gowalanda Upazila on Wednesday midnight. The deceased have been identified as 32-year-old Manirul Islam and 27-year-old groom Saiful Islam Sumon, two sons of Mokshed Sardar of Khankhanapur in […]
The report cited unplanned construction of roads, lack of proper maintenance and careless movement of vehicles as the main reasons behind the deaths of children on the roads. However, Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) Chairman Noor Mohammad Majumdar claimed that the roads are now being constructed in a planned manner. He said, “We have been […]
A Bangladeshi national – Firoz Alam alias Jahangir, 55 – has died in a road accident in Pennsylvania, United States. The incident occurred around 10 am on Friday in Crum Lynn, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. The deceased was the son of Zulfiqar Ali of Char Parbati union in Companyganj upazila of Noakhali.
Jatrabari police station sub-inspector (SI) Farzana Akhtar said Sharif was seriously injured on the spot after the collision with the Desh Travels bus on the Dhaka-Kolkata route. The bus involved in the incident has been seized and the driver has been taken into custody. He said that Sharif Hussain’s body has been taken to Dhaka […]
Deceased engineer Asim Kumar Biswas, 60, and his 49-year-old wife Chobi Biswas are residents of Siliguri, West Bengal. The driver of the private car, Mohammad Rafiqul Islam Sajib, 30, was injured in the accident. He is a resident of Khulna Dighalia area. Inspector Uttam Mitra of Katia outpost of Satkhipra said that Asim Kumar Vishwas […]
Seven people of a family, including three children, were killed and two others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a CNG-powered auto-rickshaw in Chattogram’s Hathazari upazila on Tuesday, police said. The accident occurred around 12:00 pm on the Chattogram-Khagrachari Regional Highway in the Board School area of Ward 7 of Mirzapur Union […]
In the press conference, several recommendations were made to bring order in the area. Recommendations include increasing initiatives to produce trained drivers, fixing working hours of drivers, building capacity of BRTA, banning low-speed vehicles on highways, constructing road dividers on every highway, eliminating extortion in the public transport sector. Including stopping, refurbishing the rail. tracks […]
Four killed in Mymensingh road accident
At least seven people were killed in a collision between a truck and a microbus in Ghasirdiya area of Shibpur upazila in Narsingdi. The accident happened on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway after 2:00 pm on Friday. Abul Kalam Azad, Deputy Assistant Director (DAD) of Narsingdi Fire Service, said all the victims were passengers of the microbus. […]
Confirming his death, Masood Rana, officer-in-charge (OC) of Sadar police station, said, the accident took place around 7:30 am when the truck from Palashbari hit the motorcycle carrying Biplab while he was performing his duty near Police Cafe Point. bumped into He died on the spot. The OC said that the police is trying to […]