A minor boy was killed in a landslide triggered by incessant rain in Moheshkhali upazila of the district on Tuesday morning. The deceased was identified as Robiul Hossain, 5, son of Gora Puchhun of Kalarmarsora in the upazila. Read: Re-excavated canals: LGRD Minister predicts less waterlogging in Dhaka Quoting locals, Abdul Hai, officer-in-charge of Moheskhali Police Station, said a chunk of mud fell on the child while playing in the rain on Sunday afternoon. After searching in different places, the locals recovered the body of the child by removing the mud around 9 pm, he added.  

An 8-year old girl, Tabassum, was killed after allegedly being raped by a group of youth over a feud between two families in Nasratpur village of Dhunte in Bogra.

A two-year-old boy was killed while three others sustained burn injuries in a fire that broke out at a house in city’s Bongshal area on Thursday.

Police arrested a woman on Friday for allegedly killing her two-year-old daughter. “My family has been struggling with extreme financial crisis and Marium was sick and screaming all the time. So I decided to kill her,” Rubina Begum, the mother, told police.

A child was killed, reportedly after she was raped, at Garfa village of Boraigram upazila in the early hours of Monday.