Coastguards have recovered the dead of 41 migrants off the coast of Tunisia, as the number of people dying trying to reach Europe from Africa continues to rise. According to a senior official, almost 200 people have drowned in the last ten days, reports BBC.  Tunisian morgues were running out of room, he said, and officials were struggling to keep up with the spike in attempted crossings. "On Tuesday, we had more than 200 bodies, well beyond the capacity of the hospital, which creates a health problem," said Faouzi Masmoudi, justice official in the port city of Sfax where the central morgue for an area of around a million people is sited. Also Read: At least 24 migrants die in waters off Tunisia over 2 days "There is a problem with large numbers of corpses arriving on the shore. We don't know who they are or what shipwreck they came from and the number is increasing." According the UN's migration agency, a total of roughly 300 individuals died during the previous week and a half, and 824 people have died this year, with those leaving from the Libyan coast are included. Houssem Eddine Jebabli of the national guard told Reuters, the decomposed condition of the recovered bodies indicated that they had been submerged for several days. According to him, the total number of fatalities in such a short period was unprecedented. Tunisia has become a transit point for irregular migrants, primarily from Sub-Saharan Africa, attempting to reach Europe by sea. The number of migrant deaths at sea has varied, with the UN's Missing Migrants Project reporting that 300 migrants died in the Central Mediterranean in the last 10 days alone.

Police have arrested two people for allegedly stealing Tk 20 lakh from Sonali Bank in Faridpur. During the arrest drive police recovered Tk 13 lakh from them. The arrestees are Md. Faruk Sheikh, 60, of Khulna and Mohammad Ali, 45 of Munshiganj. On Tuesday, at around 5 am, Faruk was arrested from his house in Hogladanga village of Khulna and Tk 3 lakh was recovered from his house. On his information, police same day arrested Mohammad Ali and recovered Tk 5 lakh from his father-in-law's house in Munshiganj area around 11 pm. However, police couldn’t arrest the third accused recovered Tk 5 lakh from his house in Barishal, said Additional Superintendent of Police (Administration and Finance) Jamal Pasha in a press conference on Wednesday The incident occurred on February 6, as Tk 20 lakh cash  was stolen from the manager’s room of Faridpur Sonali Bank. READ: 2 fake DGFI men held in Faridpur Next day, Mohammad Nazrul Islam whose father’s money it was, filed a case at Kotwali Police Station. Faridpur’s Kotwali police sub-inspector (SI) Shamim Hasan reviewed the video footage of the area during the investigation and identified the three accused. Of them two have been arrested 37 days after the incident. During interrogation the arrestees said that they have been doing this for over 17 years in different districts including Dhaka, Gazipur, Narsingdi, Narayanganj. They mainly target elderly people at government post offices and banks. Police sources said, four people involved with the innocent have been identified. There are several cases against the accused in different police stations. The other two accused would be arrested soon, they said. Meanwhile, investigation officer of the case SI Shamim said, after the arrestees gave a confessional statement on Wednesday afternoon, they were sent to the jail as per order of the court.

Customs officials recovered two eight mm pistols and 60 rounds of bullets hidden in a a consignment of household goods at Chattogram port on Sunday.  Following a tip off officials conducted a search operation and recovered the firearms arms, ammunitions inside a carton with household goods brought from Italy, said Mohammad Salahuddin Rezvi, Deputy Commissioner of Chattogram Customs. Also read: Customs official complain of threat on life by smugglers  He said two more plastic made guns were recovered and they are suspecting those to be just toys.  According to documents the consignment was sent from Rome by a Bangladeshi expat named Rajib Barua to the address of Kamrul Hasan, a resident of CGS Colony in the port city.  The customs official said law enforcing force has been informed of the recovery to take action in this regard. Also read: 2 drug dealers held with firearms, drug in city

Two police officers responding to a domestic violence call in Wichita, Kansas, were shot and wounded in the early hours of Christmas Day, authorities said. A woman told police that her boyfriend, 24-year-old Malik Rogers, had threatened and attacked her. Early Saturday, officers went to Rogers' apartment to arrest him, but police say he resisted and got into a struggle with the officers. READ: UP Polls: 3 shot dead during clash in Thakurgaon Rogers barricaded himself in a bathroom, and when officers forced open the door, he pointed a gun and fired several shots, police said in a news release. One officer was shot in the leg. The other was shot in the arm. Both were being treated at a hospital with injuries Police Chief Gordon Ramsay described as serious but not life-threatening. Both have been with the department for less than a year. READ: News crew guard dies after being shot in attempted robbery After the shooting, a tactical team was called and the apartment was evacuated. The suspect was later found dead of what police called a self-inflicted gunshot wound. No officers fired any shots, police said.

Police have recovered the charred body of a cattle trader  from Netrokona’s Kalmakanda. The deceased was identified as Mujibur Rahman, 50, of Terotopa village. READ: Man’s charred body found in Jashore The body was recovered by the pond near his house at Terotopa village in Rangchati union of the upazila on Wednesday morning. Kalmakanda police officer in charge Abdul Ahad Khan said that the locals noticed a fire near the pond, about 200 yards away from Mujibur's house, around 11:30 pm on Tuesday. They found  Mujibur's body with hands and legs. He was believed to have murdered before the body was set on fire. Ataur Rahman, elder brother of the deceased said that they had no clue about the murder. The body was later sent to Netrokona Sadar Hospital morgue for autopsy. READ: Woman’s charred body found in Narayanganj The officer-in-charge of Kalmakanda police station said that it is initially believed that the miscreants had killed Mujibur and fled after setting his body on fire. An investigation into the incident has begun but no arrests have been made yet, the OC said

The body of a minor girl was recovered from the Kadamtali canal in the city on Thursday afternoon, five days after she had gone missing.