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One killed in Joypurhat road crash
One person was killed and two others were injured in a collision between a bus and a pickup van in Khetlal upazila of Joypurhat on Saturday morning.
The deceased was identified as Masud Rana, 37, the pickup van driver and resident of Gomstapur of Chapainwabganj.
Joypurhat Fire Service and Civil Defense deputy assistant director Shawkat Ali Joddar said that the passenger coach of Hanif Paribahan from Hili hit the pickup van from behind in the Shalban area on the Joypurhat-Bogra highway.
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The driver of the pickup van was killed on the spot in the impact of the crash, while two other occupants were injured.
A seriously injured occupant was sent to Joypurhat District Hospital while the driver’s body was handed over to Khetlal police for an autopsy, he said.
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2 killed in Chandpur road crash
Two teenage boys were killed when a BRTC bus hit a power tiller at Simultala in Kachua upazila of Chandpur district on Monday.
Atique Hossain, 14 and Sajib Hossain, 19 of Budhunda village in the upazila died on the spot, according to police and eyewitnesses.
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Additional superintendent of Chandpur Police, Sudipta Roy, said the accident occurred around 11 am when the Dhaka-bound BRTC bus hit the power tiller, leaving two workers killed on the spot.
On information, police recovered the bodies and sent those to the local hospital morgue.
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Nigeria attacks: Hundreds reported killed as bandits target villages
At least 200 people in Nigeria's northwestern Zamfara state have been killed in a wave of vicious attacks by armed militants, residents say.
The attacks are believed to be in response to military air strikes that killed more than 100 fighters on Monday and forced others from forest hideouts, reports BBC.
Gunmen burnt homes and mutilated the bodies of their victims in the assault.
A resident of one of the villages told the Reuters news agency the militants were shooting "anyone on sight".
The attacks are the latest in a wave of violent attacks in northwest Nigeria, where the central government has long been at war with a number of local criminal groups it has described as bandits.
On Friday it was initially reported that more than 100 people had been killed by suspected "bandit" militants in the region, after some 300 gunmen on motorbikes arrived in as many as nine communities between Tuesday and Thursday night.
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Idi Musa, a resident of another village, told AFP that the attackers also stole "around 2,000 cattle".
Meanwhile, local media has reported that armed groups appear to be abandoning hideouts in forested areas in response to sustained government attacks, instead moving towards the western part of Zamfara state.
In a statement issued on Saturday, Nigeria's President, Muhammadu Buhari, pledged that the government would not relent in its battle with the militants.
"Let me reassure these besieged communities and other Nigerians that this government will not abandon them to their fate because we are more than ever determined to get rid of these outlaws," Mr Buhari said.
"The latest attacks on innocent people by the bandits is an act of desperation by mass murderers, now under relentless pressure from our military forces."
On Wednesday, the Nigerian government officially labelled bandits as terrorists, allowing security forces to impose tougher sanctions on the groups and their supporters.
Nigeria's armed forces said this week they had killed 537 "armed bandits and other criminal elements" in the region and arrested 374 others since May last year.
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Thousands of Nigerian troops have been deployed to fight the armed groups, a sophisticated networks of criminals who operate across large swathes of territory, often stealing animals, kidnapping for ransom and killing those who confront them.
Perilous roads in Bangladesh; 6,284 killed in 2021: RSF
As many as 6,284 people, including 927 women and 734 children, were killed in 5,371 reported road accidents across the country in 2021.
Road Safety Foundation (RSF), an organisation that campaigns for safe roads, on Saturday revealed a new report on accidents on Bangladesh’s periolous roads last year.
The report was prepared based on accident news reported by seven national dailies, five online news portals and electronic media.
According to the report, 7,468 people suffered injuries in road accidents during the period.
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Last year, motorcycle accidents turned out to be the deadliest ones as those alone caused death to 2,214 people, which is 35.23 per cent of the total deaths.
A total of 2,078 motorbike accidents were reported during the year that account for 36.38 per cent of the total accidents.
3 killed in Turag slum fire
Three teenagers died in a pre-dawn fire at a tin-roofed shanty at Chandalbuk under Turag Police Station on Tuesday.
The deceased were identified as Md Jahangir,19, Ruma Aktar, 17, and Afrin 14.
The fire broke out around 4:20 am at Suruj Mia’s house at Manik Slum in the city's Uttara area, said Shahjahan Sikder, Deputy Assistant Director Media cell of fire service and Civil Defence headquarters.
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On information, three units of firefighters rushed to the spot and managed to put out the flame at after one and a half hours of efforts at 5:40 am, he said
“The fire might have originated from an electric short-circuit. Things will be clear after our investigation,” he said.
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The fire service official said the bodies were recovered from the spot and handed over to Sub Inspector Waziur Rahman.
Housewife killed in Kurigram, husband on the run
A housewife was hacked to death allegedly by her husband at her father’s house in Paikerchhara village in Bhurungamari upazila of Kurigram early Tuesday.
The victim was identified as Shahida Begum, 40, daughter of Shahjahan Ali and wife of Abu Bakar Siddiqui,44, of the same village.
According to Shahida’s family, Shahida came to her father’s house a few days back with her youngest daughter following a prolonged feud with her husband.
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On Monday night, Abu Bakar, a wood trader, also came to meet Shahida, a mother of three, said Mahir Uddin, Shahida’s uncle.
At the dead of night, he said, they heard Shahida’s screams and they found her dead on her bed when they reached there.
Shahida’s daughter and mother also suffered injuries during the incident, said Mahir Uddin.
Paikerchara union member (ward-1) Abu Md Bajlur Rahman said the injured were taken to a local hospital.
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Shahida’s body, bearing the marks of sharp injuries in her neck, was recovered around 4 am, said Ataur Rahman, a sub-inspector of Bhurungamari Police Station.
Abu Bakar went into hiding right after the incident.
Fighting intensifies in eastern Colombia; at least 23 killed
At least 23 people were killed in Colombia this weekend and 20 had to flee their homes as fighting between rebel groups intensified in the eastern state of Arauca, Colombia's Defense Minister said Monday.
The killings mark a setback for Colombia's government, which was able to bring down homicide rates in much of the country following a 2016 peace deal with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. But it is now struggling to control violence in rural pockets of the country where smaller rebel groups and drug trafficking organizations are fighting over smuggling routes, coca fields, illegal mines and other assets.
Arauca is home to some of Colombia’s largest oil wells and is also crossed by a pipeline that is regularly attacked by rebel groups that steal its oil. The state borders Venezuela and drug trafficking groups have been fighting over its smuggling routes for decades.
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In a statement Monday, Colombia’s army said the latest outbreak of violence was caused by fighting between the National Liberation Army, or ELN, guerrilla group and former members of the FARC who refused to join the peace deal. The army said that both groups are currently fighting for dominance over the area’s drug trade.
Juan Carlos Villate, a human rights officer in the town of Tame, told Colombia’s Blu Radio that he received reports of civilians who were dragged out of their homes and executed on Sunday by members of armed groups. Villate said that he had reports of 50 people who went missing and 27 who were killed over the weekend.
Human Rights Watch said it has received reports of 24 deaths, as well as forced displacements and abductions.
“It appears that the alliance between the ELN and dissidents with the 10th Front of the FARC in the zone has broken," said the group's Colombia expert, Juan Pappier.
Arauca last year received hundreds of refugees who fled from neighboring Venezuela following fighting between the Venezuelan army and FARC splinter groups that also operate on the Venezuelan side of the border.
President Ivan Duque said on Monday that he would send more troops to the area and increase surveillance flights to intercept armed groups and monitor their activity along the border with Venezuela. Duque accused Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro of providing shelter to some of these rebel groups and said Colombia would fight them “with all its might."
While Colombia's overall murder rate has gone down since the peace deal was signed, homicides and forced displacement have also gone up in some rural pockets of the country that were previously dominated by the FARC and where smaller groups, including the ELN, are now fighting for territorial control.
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The ELN guerrillas initiated peace talks with the Colombian government in 2017, but those broke down following an attack on a police academy that killed 23 people.
AL activist killed in post-poll violence in Pabna
An Awami League (AL) activist was killed in post-poll violence that broke out in the Nazirpur Hatpara area of Hemayetpur union in Pabna Sadar on Tuesday evening.
The deceased was identified as Shamim Hossain, 40, a supporter of defeated AL candidate in Hemayetpur and son of Nur Ali Pramanik of Nazirpur Hatpara.
According to locals, Manjurul Islam alias Madhu, the defeated chairman candidate who had the AL electoral symbol (boat), was having tea with his supporters at a tea stall where independent candidate Tariqul Islam Nilu Kha, along with his supporters including son Imran, arrived and started firing indiscriminately.
Shamim Hossain was shot dead on the spot.
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Pabna Sadar Circle ASP Roknuzzaman said Shamim was taken to the hospital but the doctor on duty could only declare him dead.
Additional police have been deployed in the area in the wake of the attack.
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One killed, 40 injured as two commuter buses collide on Dhaka-Bogura highway
At least one person died and more than 40 others were injured in a collision between two passenger buses
on the busy Dhaka-Bogura highway in the district's Sherpur upazila early on Saturday.
The identities of the deceased and the injured could not be ascertained yet. The victims were occupants of both the buses.
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Eye-witnesses told UNB that the accident occurred on the high-speed corridor in the Sherua Battala area of Shahbandegi union around 3.30am when a Dhaka-bound Surja Paribahan bus crashed into a Bogura-bound Shyamoli Paribahan bus coming the opposite direction.
The impact of the head-on collision left one person dead and some 40 others injured, and triggered a 1km-long traffic jam on both the carriageways of the highway.
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AKM Baniul Anam, in-charge of Sherpur Highway police camp, said the injured were rushed to Sherpur Upazila Hospital and Bogura Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital. "Both the buses have been seized and the snarls cleared," he said.
Biker killed in road crash in Thakurgaon
A 35-year-old biker was killed in a head-on collision with a local public transport vehicle on the busy Ranisankail-Nekmorod highway in Thakurgaon on Monday night.
The deceased was identified as Khokon, son of freedom fighter Abdul Motaleb of Moholbari village.
Fire service sources said that on his way to Ranisankail, Khokon lost control over his speeding bike and collided head-on with a bhatvati (local transport) coming from the opposite direction on Monday night.
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A critically injured Khokon was rushed to Ranishankail Health Complex by firefighters, where duty doctors declared him dead on arrival.
SM Zahid Iqbal, inspector of Ranisankail Police Station, said they had seized the bhatvati and detained its driver. "No written complaint has been filed by the family of the deceased so far. After receiving a complaint, legal action will be taken."
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