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Bangladesh has recorded two more deaths from dengue and 157 new cases in 24 hours until 8:00am on Wednesday. With the latest fatalities, the dengue death toll has risen to 12 this year, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). The new deaths were reported in Mymensingh division, it said. With the new cases, the total number of dengue cases reported in the country this year has reached 5,317. According to the DGHS, 62.1 percent of this year’s dengue patients are male while 37.9 percent are female. Bangladesh reported 102,861 dengue cases and 413 dengue-related deaths in 2025, it said.

A local leader of Jubo League who was injured in a clash with the supporters of a BNP leader over establishing dominance in Balaganj upazila of Sylhet died at a hospital in Dhaka on Sunday night. The deceased was identified as Loyluch Mia, president of the Jubo League’s Balaganj Sadar Union unit. He died around 10:30pm while undergoing treatment at a hospital in Dhaka, said Md Farid Uddin Bhuiyan, officer-in-charge of Balaganj Police Station. A portion of the house was damaged in the fire, according to locals. The OC said the clash erupted on Saturday afternoon between the supporters of Loyluch and local BNP leader Yunus  Miah over boarding a boat during a local event in Balaganj Sadar. Several people including Loyluch Mia sustained injuries during the clash Loyluch was first taken to a local hospital and later shifted to Dhaka in critical condition. 2 killed in Mymensingh after trees fall during nor'wester His death news triggered further unrest in the area and some agitated locals reportedly set fire to the house of local BNP leader Yunus. Police were deployed at the scene to avert further untoward incidents, OC Farid Uddin added.  

A 25-year-old youth died after falling from the rooftop of a six-storey building in the Arambagh’s Miazan Goli of the capital’s Motijheel area on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased, identified as Ripon, was the son of the late Md Hossain and a resident of Sheikh Shaheb Bazar, Lalbagh. He was reportedly visiting his cousin’s house when the accident took place. 2 die as bus hits autorickshaw in Gazipur Family members rushed the critically injured Ripon to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) at around 4pm, where doctors declared him dead upon examination. Md Faruk, in charge of the DMCH police outpost, said the body has been kept at the hospital morgue for an autopsy.

Thirteen members of the same family have died in Namibia after eating porridge that authorities believe became toxic when it was mixed with a fermented substance left over from a homemade alcoholic beverage, the state broadcaster reported. The Namibian Broadcasting Corporation said another four people are in a criticial condition in the hospital. NBC, quoting the Namibian health ministry, said at least 20 people consumed the "poisonous or toxic" porridge after it was mixed with sediment from a homemade beer. The victims ranged in age from 2 to 33, NBC said. The incident happened in the Kavango East region in the far northeast of the country.  

At least 24 migrants trying to make their way to Europe died over two days when their fragile, overloaded boats sank, the prosecutor's office of the coastal port city of Sfax said Saturday. The Tunisian Coast Guard pulled the bodies of four sub-Saharan migrants from the waters off the coast of Sfax on Saturday, while 36 migrants were saved and three others were missing, according to Faouzi Masmoudi, spokesman for the prosecutor's office in Sfax. A day earlier, 20 sub-Saharan migrants drowned when their boat went under about 35 miles (about 56 kilometers) from Sfax, and 17 others, including three children, were saved, Masmoudi said. He added that two of the survivors pulled from the water were reported in critical condition. The numbers of migrants launching from Tunisian coastal waters and aiming to reach the shores of Italy have skyrocketed this year. The Coast Guard intercepted numerous other boats loaded with migrants on Friday and Saturday, Masmoudi said. According to the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights, 132 migrants have died or disappeared in the first three months of this year while trying to reach Europe, reflecting the numbers of attempted and successful crossings. Nearly two weeks ago, the Coast Guard recovered the bodies of 29 migrants in several boat sinkings. The prosecutor's office in Sfax, one of the main regions for migrants to launch their perilous expeditions, is trying to find those who provide desperate migrants with small unseaworthy vessels to make voyages onward to Europe. People fleeing conflict or poverty routinely take boats from Tunisian shores toward Europe, even though the central Mediterranean is the most dangerous migration route in the world, according to the International Organization for Migration. Many migrants are from sub-Saharan Africa.

Two workers inhaled toxic air and died as they were working inside a septic tank without adequate protective gear - a common occurrence across the country, this time at an under-construction building in Hathazari upazila of the district on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Md Yeasin, 27, and Md Badsha, 26. Their details could not be known immediately. Md Shamim, an official at the upazila Fire Service and Civil Defence department, said three workers entered the septic tank to clean it at Dakshin Madarsha village around 4.30pm. Two of the workers fell sick due to inhalation of toxic gas in the tank, Shamim said. On information, they rushed to the spot and pulled the workers out of the tank around 5pm, he said, adding that they were rushed to a hospital where physicians declared them dead upon arrival.   Md Alamgir, a sub inspector of Madunaghat police outpost under Hathazari police station, also confirmed the deaths.  

Bangladesh recorded two more Covid-linked deaths with 278  fresh cases in 24 hours till Thursday morning. With the latest numbers, the total fatalities reached 29,300 while the caseload 2,006,646, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). The daily case positivity rate dropped to 5.14 per cent from Wednesday’s 6.53 per cent as 5,404 samples were tested. The deceased included a man and woman from Sylhet division. The mortality rate remained unchanged at 1.46 percent. The recovery rate rose to 96.97 per cent from Wednesday’s 96.95 per cent. Read: Global Covid cases top 585 million In July, Bangladesh reported 142 Covid-linked deaths and 31,422 cases, the highest death toll and cases in the last five months since March this year, as per DGHS. Among the deceased, 57 were unvaccinated while seven received the first dose, 52 the second dose and 26 the third dose, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). Besides, 34,901 patients recovered from the disease during this period. Bangladesh reported its first zero Covid death on November 20 last year since the pandemic broke out here in March 2020. The country registered its highest daily caseload of 16,230 on July 28 last year and daily fatalities of 264 on August 10 in the same year.

Eighty-four people are known to have died from the heat wave that has struck Spain since July 10, the Carlos III Health Institute, which reports to the Spanish Ministry of Health, said on Friday. All the deaths, which were reported on July 10-12, could be attributed to the scorching heat exceeding 40 degrees Celsius in large parts of the country. Temperatures even rose above 45 degrees Centigrade in the south and southwest of the country. Also read: Heat wave, flooding leave multiple people dead in China The heat wave is predicted to continue into next week, and the death toll is feared to rise. This is the second major heat wave of the year in Spain. The first one lasted from June 11 until June 20 and claimed the lives of 829 people nationwide, the Ministry of Health said. Back then, temperatures peaked at 44.5 degrees Celsius. The authorities recommend that people drink plenty of water, refrain from excessive exercise and stay indoors as much as possible. Also read: Wildfires scorch parts of Europe amid extreme heat wave

Cholera outbreak has claimed the lives of five persons from a single district in India's western state of Maharashtra and another 181 people have fallen sick, state government officials said Thursday. The water-borne disease outbreak was found in four villages in Amravati district of the state, 669 km east of Mumbai. Read: 6,789 people infected with cholera in Ethiopia: UN Maharashtra's state government has deployed a team to investigate the outbreak and provide guidance, and the state's public health department has sounded alert across the state asking all districts to take adequate steps to curb the spread of the disease amid rains and floods.  

Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal here on Thursday sentenced three people to death for raping a girl in front of her mother 19 years ago. The tribunal also fined the convicts  Tk 2 lakh each. The convicts are—Abul Kashem, son of Fakir Ahmed, Md Latu, son of Abdur Rashid and Jahangir Alam, son of Abul Kalam from Nababpur union under Feni’s Fulgazi upazila. Also read: Female UP member ‘gang-raped’ in Faridpur, one held Mohammad Faruk, another accused in the case, was acquitted by the court as charges against him could not be proved. Public Prosecutor Farid Ahmed Hazari said that all the convicts except Faruk were tried in absentia. According to the case statement, Abul Kashem, Latu, Jahangir Alam and Mohammad Faruk abducted the victim and her mother on the night of May 13, 2003. Later, they raped the girl keeping her mother at gunpoint. Also read: Man to hang for killing wife, daughter in Khulna The victim’s mother logged a complaint with Fulgazi police station in this regard the next day.