The accident occurred around 9:00am near the Kakoli bus stand
For long, Billal Fakir, 40, and his family wanted a fourth child. On the day their wish was to be granted, fate betrayed them.
An SSC examinee was run over by a truck in Uttara yesterday, shortly after he came out of the examination centre.
Victims identified
Road accidents claimed at least 41 lives and injured numerous others across the country during the Eid holidays since Monday.
A passenger bus and a microbus collided head-on in Lohagara upazila of Chattogram
The accident occurred around 7:25am
A truck yesterday hit two female garment workers while they were crossing the road near the Chairmanbari area in Dhaka’s Banani, leaving one of them dead and the other injured.
Garment workers lifted the blockade from Banani's Chairmanbari today after around six hours of protest
The numbers of road accidents and deaths saw a sharp rise in the first three months of this year compared to the corresponding period last year. Experts blamed the spike on the authorities’ failure to implement specific measures and a lack of commitment to ensure road safety.
Three people, including two students, were killed and two others injured when a bus hits a battery-run auto-rickshaw in Rangpur city last night
At least 555 people were killed and 1,031 were injured in 503 road crashes across the country last month, Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity said today
Three labourers were killed and two others injured as a truck rammed an autorickshaw on the Dhaka-Tangail highway in Gazipur's Kaliakoir upazila early today
At least four people were killed and six others injured when a bus, going on the wrong side of Dinajpur-Rangpur highway, ploughed into pedestrians and hit two rickshaw vans and a motorcycle in Ranirbandar area of Chirirbandar, Dinajpur, yesterday.
Locals block Dinajpur-Rangpur highway for two hours in protest
Managing travel speeds on the roads of Asia and the Pacific will save lives and avoid costly, often debilitating, injuries.
Over 7,902 people were killed in 6,261 road accidents last year, said a Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity (BJKS) report released yesterday.
Four persons died and four others were injured as two private cars collided head-on on 300 feet road in Purbachal this morning.
A constable was killed and another was seriously injured when a local train hit a police van in Jamalpur's Sadar upazila early today
