Accident
3 motorcyclists killed in Nagaon road crash
Nagaon, Oct 9 (UNB) – Three motorcyclists were killed when a truck rammed a motorbike on Mohadebpur-Patnitola road in Patnitola upazila headquarters on Tuesday.
Death toll in Haiti earthquake rises to 15; 333 injured
Port-De-Paix, Oct 9 (AP/UNB) — The death toll from a 5.9 earthquake that hit Haiti over the weekend rose to 15 people with 333 injured, authorities said Monday, as thousands of people slept outdoors fearing aftershocks would topple their cracked homes.
1 killed, 5 hurt when unfinished Dallas town house collapses
Dallas, Oct 9 (AP/UNB) — A construction worker is dead and five co-workers are hospitalized with injuries after a three-story town house they were building in Dallas collapsed during a thunderstorm.
Congo ministry says at least 53 dead after tanker truck fire
Kinshasa, Oct 8 (AP/UNB) — Congo's Health Ministry says at least 53 people are dead and more than 72 people have been hospitalized after a tanker truck collided with another truck in western Congo.
Man killed as tractor plunges into a river in Cumilla
Cumilla, Oct 8 (UNB) – A driver of a tractor was killed when a brick-laden tractor plunged into the Gumti river following collapse of a bailey bridge on Daudkandi-Batakandi road at Kadamtoli in Daudkandi upazila on Monday.
Fire guts factory, six warehouses in Munshiganj
Munshiganj, Oct 8 (UNB) – A factory and six warehouses were gutted as a fire broke out at Komolaghat Bandar in Mirkadam municipality here early Monday.
Zahurul Islam,a fireman at Munshiganj Fire Service, said the fire broke out at a plastic warehouse around 12am and soon engulfed the adjoining five other warehouses and a pulse factory.
On information, four firefighting units from Munshiganj and Srinagar rushed in and put out the fire.
However, it is not clear what caused the fire.
Limo crash at popular tourist spot in NY kills 20
Schoharie, Oct 7 (AP/UNB) — A crash involving a limousine at a popular upstate New York tourist spot killed 20 people, officials said Sunday.
Man killed in gas cylinder blast in Bogura
Bogura, Oct 7 (UNB) – An auto-rickshaw driver was killed and two others sustained injuries in a gas cylinder explosion at Jamalpur in Shahjahanpur upazila on Sunday.
The deceased was identified as Farid Uddin, 45.
Sub-inspector Rumman Hossain of Shahjahanpur Police Station said a gas cylinder went off with a big bang while being pumped air into it at a shop Zakaria Store around 11 am, leaving Farid dead on the spot and injuring the owner and a worker of the shop.
Of the injured, the shop worker was taken to Bogura Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital while the shop owner Khairul Islam went into hiding with the injury.
Woman killed falling off motorbike in city
Dhaka, Oct 7 (UNB)– A woman was killed falling off a running motorcycle in Jatrabari Dhal area in the city on Saturday morning.
Jabal-e-Noor pays Tk 10 lakh to 2 road crash victims’ families
Dhaka, Oct 7 (UNB) –In response to a High Court order, owner of Jabal-e-Noor Paribahan paid Tk 5 lakh to each family of the two students who were killed in a road crash on Dhaka's Airport Road on July 29 this year.