Despite accidents on the rail tracks due to risky crossing over, awareness among the public seems to be non-existent. People are seen running across rail tracks with an oncoming train dangerously close at Jurain rail gate in the capital yesterday. Photo: Palash Khan
A battery-operated rickshaw, which is banned on the streets of Dhaka city, maneuvers dangerously through three buses amid heavy rain on Topkhana Road. These rickshaws are vulnerable to electrocution in the rain and susceptible to brake failure particularly on wet, slippery roads, putting the driver and passengers both at serious risk in such conditions. Photo: Anisur Rahman
These traffic signal lights fell from the post during a storm a few days back. They were still there when the photo was taken at TT Para Bus Stand near Kamalapur Railway Station yesterday. Photo: Palash Khan
People look at an electricity pole that broke after a truck veered onto the footpath and crashed into it in front of the DMP headquarters on Bailey Road yesterday. Photo: Anisur Rahman
Evacuees board buses with their belongings on top as Syrian rebels and their families were being evacuated from the town of Yalda on the outskirts of Damascus yesterday, under a negotiated withdrawal to secure the last opposition holdouts of the capital. The evacuees are heading to opposition-held parts of northern Syria. Photo: AFP
