Police rescued a tortured female homemaker from Road No. 11 of Dhanmondi area on Tuesday after getting a call from the national emergency helpline 999.  “Please save me, they will kill me. Please take me out from here,” the girl said to the police over the phone. Derailment halts rail link between northern districts with Dhaka, southern region A press release signed by Anwar Sattar, Inspector of Police and Media and Public Relations Officer of National emergency service 999, revealed the matter on Wednesday. The call was received by 999 call taker Constable Manzoor Rashid. He immediately informed Dhanmondi Police Station to take immediate action to recover the girl. Bus set on fire in Dhaka’s Jatrabari ahead of 48-hr countrywide blockade On receiving the information, a team of Dhanmondi Police Station rushed to the spot and rescued a 20-year-old female homemaker named Sumi. Later, the girl was handed over to the custody of her parents. The rescued girl and her parents were reluctant to take further legal action or file a written complaint.  Derailment: Dhaka, southern regions’ train link with north resumed after 6 hrs ASI Shamsuzzaman, who led the police team of Dhanmondi Police Station, confirmed the matter.

National emergency service – 999 – has been suspended due to the massive fire at Bangabazar in the capital, said Police Headquarters. It also requested people to contact local police stations or fire stations in case of emergency. The massive fire broke out at Bangabazar market in Dhaka around 6:10 am on Tuesday (April 04, 2023) and spread soon. Read More: Bangabazar Market fire: 5 fall sick from inhaling smoke The blaze was brought under control around 12:36 pm, said Anwarul Islam, warehouse inspector of Fire Service and Civil Defence headquarters. However, black smoke is still coming out from different places and firefighters were still working to fully douse the fire, he said. Forty-eight firefighting units were engaged in extinguishing the blaze. Read More: Bangabazar Market fire in Dhaka causes huge traffic jam However, what caused the fire could not be known yet. At least five people fell sick while trying to extinguish the fire.

Usually, people seek help when calling National Emergency Service 999. A “thief” in Barishal calling 999, however, makes for an interesting story. Police today said they received a call from a “thief” who wanted to be “saved from a possible mob beating”, as he was stuck inside a shop in Barishal town. Yeasin Khan (41), entered a shop in the AR Khan Bazar area of Sadar Upazila and got stuck inside the shop on Wednesday morning after sensing the presence of people in the market, said Asaduzzaman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Metropolitan Bandar Police Station. Read: Rickshaw puller awarded prize for 999 call to save women in Chattogram The man called 999 for help, fearing that he might be beaten up by the locals if caught, the OC added. When police asked him why he was not coming out of the shop, Yeasin told them that it took him a long time to pack “the stolen goods” and when he was done, it was already morning and people started arriving at the market. “In this condition, if he came out, he would be beaten up by a mob,” said OC Asaduzzaman. Read: Stranded tourists rescued from Kaptai Lake after 999 call Shop owner Jhantu said he didn’t realize that a thief broke into his shop.  Later, police arrested Yeasin, the thief who called 999 National Emergency Service, from the spot after rescuing him from the shop, said the OC.

Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) Wednesday awarded a prize to the rickshaw puller, who phoned the national hotline 999 to save a housewife from the clutches of rapists on July 18, for his courage and awareness in the port city. Krishna Pada Roy, newly appointed commissioner of the CMP, was awarded the prize for the outstanding job of the rickshaw puller identified as Md Abdul Hannan, 32. CMP Additional Deputy Commissioner Md Ameer Jafar and Deputy Commissioner (North) Mokhlesur Rahman and among others were present during the prize ceremony. Mentionable, a 23-year-old housewife was returning to her Sholoshahar’s residence by a rickshaw after attending a wedding ceremony in the GEC area around 1:00 am on July 18. A group of three youths interrupted the rickshaw in front of one ‘Sadia’s Kitchen’ and took her to a makeshift tea stall where six culprits violated her in phases. Though the rickshaw puller was asked to leave the spot and not to share it with anyone, he informed another rickshaw puller after going a few yards. The second rickshaw puller phoned the national hotline 999 seeking help in this connection. Responding to the call, a team of law enforcement agencies from nearby Khulshi police station rushed to the spot and rescued the victim. Moreover, police arrested three of the culprits from the spot. Also read: Auto-rickshaw driver stabbed by muggers in Dhaka's Khilgaon dies

The Bangladesh Navy, in the small hours of Wednesday, rescued as many as 17 fishermen from a trawler that broke down in the Bay of Bengal. An officer from the naval headquarters here told UNB that the fishing trawler, ‘Tamanna Munshi-4’, ventured into deep waters with 17 fishermen on board on August 1. Read: 19 Bangladeshi fishermen rescued from Indian waters in Bay of Bengal That very day, the engine of the boat went out of order, forcing the fishermen to remain stranded in the sea for three days. A team from the Bangladesh Navy rescued the stranded fishermen five miles away from Kutubdia point after the master of the trawler made an SOS call to national emergency number 999. Read:Sundarbans fishermen remain a neglected lot The rescued fishermen have been given first aid and food, the officer said.

Police on Tuesday night arrested two people for allegedly raping a handicapped woman on a truck in Sirajganj’s Koddermor area. The arrestees were truck driver Sohel Rana, 32, son of Mansur Ali of Bogra and the helper Mohammad Abdul Wahab Sheikh, 28, son of Mohammad Zahurul Sheikh of Shibganj upazila. Police were able to arrest them and rescue the rape victim with a quick response to a 999 call report. Officer-in-charge (OC) of Bangabandhu Bridge West Police Station Mosaddek Ali said the 20-year-old mentally handicapped woman from Shimla village of Sirajganj’s Raiganj upazila went missing on Sunday night. On Tuesday, people in Gazipur’s Chandra found her and requested a freight truck to drop her off at Chandaikona along with two other passengers. “Reaching Tangail’s Elenga area, the driver and helper ask the two passengers to go for a tea break, citing mechanical glitch in the engine. But the passengers returned suspecting the odd and found the woman being raped,” he said. READ: Rape case against 4 children: suspension order of 7 police stayed The truck driver and helper managed to escape with the woman in the truck. The passengers immediately reported the incident calling 999. Police at Bangabandhu Bridge West failed to stop the speeding truck and reached the barricade at the Kaddarmor area where the truck was eventually stopped. The handicapped woman was rescued from the truck cabin and the truck was seized. The OC said that the woman tried to provide hints through gestures of what happened. A case was filed in this regard.  

Police rescued a baby girl from the pavement in front of Premier University at the WASA intersection of Chattogram, following a 999 call early Saturday morning. Local resident Al-Amin, an accounting officer at a university, said he came down from his house hearing a noise at around 1am to see a newborn baby lying on the sidewalk. Also read: Body of newborn found at Natore Hospital He immediately called the national emergency hotline 999 and was connected to Md Alamgir, officer-in-charge of Chawkbazar police station. "I told him the incident and within ten minutes the OC himself appeared with his force.  They took the newborn baby to Chittagong Medical College Hospital." Also read: Mother sells newborn to pay hospital bills OC Alamgir verified Al-Amin version's of events and said,"I immediately went to rescue the newborn and admitted her to the hospital.  Doctors said the baby was safe." "CCTV footage of the scene is being collected to find out who left the child," he added. Also read: Newborn’s body found in Buriganga OC Alamgir made headlines in 2017 with a similar act: some may recall the incident of a newborn being rescued from a dustbin in the Colonel Hat locality of the Port City.

Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) on Saturday rescued four tourists who went missing while hiking in a remote hilly region of Cox’s Bazar’s Darianagar.

Police in a drive arrested four people as they gang raped a housewife in front of her husband from Shaheed Nagar Salma Colony in Bayazid Bostami area of Chattogram city early Sunday.

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard on Wednesday rescued 11 sailors from a sinking ship in the Bay of Bengal near Hatiya coast of Noakhali after they called for help on emergency number 999.