A 68-year-old woman died after her blanket caught fire from a kerosene lamp at her house in Hatibandha upazila of Lalmonirhat district on Saturday night. The deceased were identified as Oichon Bewa, wife of late Jamir Uddin of Burasardubi village. According to locals, the blanket of Oichon caught fire apparently from a kerosene lamp and she couldn’t escape due to her old age.  Two killed in Sylhet bus-auto rickshaw collision Later locals brought the fire under control. Hatibandha Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Mahmudunnabi said police were sent to the scene for investigation.  

A woman was killed and five others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a battery-run autovan at Ambati area of Patnitala Upazila on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Shanjida Khatun, 26, wife of Rasel Hossain, a resident of Paharkata village of Patnitala Upazila. According to locals, a battery-run auto-van head-on collided with a Nazipur-bound bus at Ambati area of Nazipur-Dhamoirhat road, leaving six people injured. Later, locals took the injured to Patnitala Upazila Health Complex where a duty doctor declared Shanjida died. Palash Chandra Dev, Officer-in-Charge of Patnitala Police Station said that, being informed, a law enforcer’s team was sent to spot. The bus had been seized but the driver and helper managed to flee away.  

 Police in eastern Oklahoma say a 44-year-old woman was killed after crashing to the ground while skydiving. Heather Glasgow of Poteau died at a hospital after the fall Saturday afternoon, according to police in Sallisaw. “An unknown issue arose during the skydive,” according to a statement from Sallisaw police. Witnesses told investigators that Glasgow’s parachute had opened, but she was spinning and did not recover before hitting the ground in Sallisaw, near the Arkansas state line and about 150 miles (240 kilometers) east of Oklahoma City, police said. It was not clear how far Glasgow fell and a police spokesman was not immediately available for comment on Tuesday. Police said Glasgow had completed a tandem jump before the solo jump in which she fell to her death, The Federal Aviation Administration is assisting in the investigation. The FAA said in a statement that it is investigating the packing of the main and reserve parachutes while local authorities are in charge of other aspects of the investigation.

A woman was stabbed to death allegedly by her rivals in Ghoraghat upazila of Dinajpur district over land dispute on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Amena Begum, wife of Sekendar Ali, a resident of Baro Paikerghar village in Ghoraghat Upazila. Locals said when Amena’s rivals went to cultivate a disputed land she obstructed them leading to an altercation. At one stage, they stabbed her with a sharp weapon, leaving her dead on the spot. Abdul Wahab, Duty Officer and Sub-Inspector of Ghoraghat Police Station, said police reached the spot and necessary actions will be taken. Read more: Man stabbed dead in Chattagram However, this is the 3rd murder incident in Ghoraghat Upazila in a span of 10 days over ownership of land. On January 25, two people were killed and four were injured in a clash between two groups over land dispute in the upazila.

A 19-year-old woman was found dead in a Dakshin Surma residential hotel room Wednesday, police said. However, hotel manager Jahir Miah, the former husband of the 19-year-old, went into hiding after the incident. The deceased was identified as Nilima Begum Lily from Sylhet's Osmaninagar upazila. Md Kamrul Hasan Talukdar, officer-in-charge (OC) of Dakshin Surma Police Station, said the two kept in touch despite their separation. "We recovered the body from the first floor of 'Shapla Residential Hotel,' ramming the door of room No. 105 open after getting information from the hotel staff around 10.45am," he said. The body was sent to Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical Hospital for post-mortem, Kamrul said, adding that the body bore no injury marks. "Police are looking for Jahir. The cause of Lily's death can be confirmed after investigation," the OC said. Read more: 2 Ansar members found dead inside Agrani Bank in Narsingdi                  

A 32-year-old woman and her eight-year-old daughter were electrocuted to death in Khagrachhari's Manikchhari Saturday. Kulsum Begum and her daughter Ishrat Jahan Koli were from the Shah Nagar area of Manikchhari. The mishap occurred in the evening as Kulsum and her daughter came into contact with a live wire of an electric pole while going to a nearby field to bring their cow back home, Manikchhari Police Station Officer-in-Charge Mohammad Shahnoor Alam said. Both the mother and daughter were rushed to Manikchhari Upazila Health Complex where they were declared dead on arrival, he added. Read more: Sixth-grader electrocuted in Kurigram  

A woman and her six year old daughter sustained burn injuries in a fire that broke out at a house near Narayanganj Police Lines in the district early Sunday. The victims were identified as Nargis Akter, wife of Monir Mia and Mariam Akter of Tagarpar area. Dr SM Ayub Hossain, a physician of the Burn Institute of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, said the fire broke out at the house from gas pipeline leakage around 2:30 am and engulfed soon. Nargis and her minor daughter who were at the house sustained burn injuries. Monir Mia was out of his house when the incident occurred. Read More: Fire at a market in Old Dhaka doused Later, they were taken to a local hospital and then shifted to DMCH. Of them, Nargis sustained 70 percent burn injuries while Mariam received 55 percent injures.  

The body of a 21-year-old woman was recovered from a water tank of a house at Bandartila in Chattogram city on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Marjina Akter, daughter of Wahidul Gazi of Bauphal upazila in Patuakhali district. Abdul Karim, officer-in-charge of Export Processing Zone (EPZ) Police Station, said Marjina along with her husband Md. Hasan and seven-month-old baby used to live on the 4th floor of a building. Read more: Two unidentified bodies recovered from Dhaka streets Marjina remained missing since Thursday afternoon. Getting no whereabouts, Hasan lodged a general diary with EPZ Police Station on Friday. On Saturday night, the residents of the building complained to the house owner about bad odor from the water tank of the building. On information, police went to the spot and recovered the decomposed body of Marjina. Police suspected that Hasan might have killed his wife and dumped the body into the water tank. Hasan went into hiding after the recovery of her body.        

A 19-year-old woman was sedated and raped in Dhaka’s Demra area on Sunday night, police say. Demra police said the woman came to visit her elder brother in Kadamtali area some 15 days ago. On Sunday, she went to the Konapara fair in Demra and met a distant relative and his friend. “The duo apparently mixed sedatives in soft drink which the young woman drank. Later, they took her to a nearby field where she was raped by multiple people,” Azharul Islam, a Sub-inspector of Demra Police Station, said. Read: Khulna: Young woman sedated, raped by 4 Md Shafiqur, Officer-in-Charge of Demra Police Station, said that after being informed by the woman about the incident, police rescued and admitted her to the One-Stop Crisis Center of Dhaka Medical College Hospital. “She is under treatment and unwell at the moment. We will take legal action after medical tests and once we get information from her,” he added.

A 62-year-old woman died after suffering a cardiac arrest on seeing the dead bodies of a group killed in a lightning strike in Ullapara of Sirajganj. Hosne Ara Khatun was the wife of Shobha Ali Mallik of Mallikpara village in Enayatpur.  Ujjal Hossain, upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) of Ullapara confirmed the matter to UNB and said that nine agricultural workers were killed by a lightning strike while working on a paddy field in Matikora village of Panchkroshi union of the upazila on Thursday afternoon. Among the victims, five of them were from the same family of Shibpur village in the municipal area. When the bodies were brought to their home in Shivpur village, hundreds of men and women from different areas gathered to see them. Hosne Ara Khatun also went to see the bodies. Seeing the bodies affected her badly, and on her way back home, she suffered a cardiac arrest.  She was eventually rushed to a nearby hospital where the doctors declared her dead, added the UNO. Earlier, lightning strike killed nine agricultural workers and injured four others in Sirajganj's Ullapara upazila Thursday, according to police. Read: Lightning strike kill 9 men at work in Sirajganj Eight of the deceased were identified as Md Mobarak, 40, Monnaf Hossain, 19, Shamsher Ali, 62, Md Afsar, 63, Md Shahin, 21, Abdul Kuddus, 60, Shah Alam, 42 and Ritu Khatun, 15, Mohammad Mahfuz, assistant superintendent of police (ASP) of Ullapara Circle, said. The workers were planting paddy seedlings when it started to rain heavily, Nazrul Islam, officer-in-charge (OC) of Ullapara Police Station, said. "Then all of them sheltered in a house near the field. Suddenly a streak of lightning struck the men, killing five of them on the spot and leaving others critically injured," Nazrul said. "The locals rushed the injured to different hospitals and clinics where they died while undergoing treatment."