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RMG worker dies in Gazipur during protest demanding salary hike
An RMG worker died today during the ongoing protest, demanding a minimum basic salary of Tk 23,000, on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Bhogra in Gazipur.
The deceased was identified as Russel Hawladar, 22, an electrician of Design Express Limited Company in Maleker Bari in the district and son of Hannan Hawladar of Jhalakathi district.
Protesting RMG workers said that Russel died in “police firing.” Police rejected the claim.
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Workers of several factories staged demonstrations on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Bhogra area, demanding salary hike.
Later, authorities concerned of Design Express Limited declared suspension of the production of the factory amid unrest, workers said.
On information, police rushed to the spot and fired rubber bullets and used tear gas shells to disperse the workers.
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Md Ranju, a colleague of Russel, said, “Russel received bullet injuries while returning home from the factory.”
He was taken to Taiarunnesa Memorial Medical College and Hospital where the doctors referred him to Tongi Shaheed Ahsan Ullah Master General Hospital.
Dr Tarek Hasan, resident medical officer of Tongi Shaheed Ahsan Ullah Master General Hospital, said Russel was brought dead at the hospital.
The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital morgue for autopsy, said Dr Tarek.
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Abu Siddique, officer-in-charge of Bason Police Station, said the workers staged a demonstration and put up a barricade on the highway. They also torched a vehicle during the protest.
Police used tear gas shells and fired sound grenades to disperse them, he said.
Asked about the death of the worker in “police firing,” OC Abu Siddique said he was not aware of it.
BNP man dies ‘while fleeing after attempting to set bus on fire’ in Dhaka
A 35-year-old local BNP leader, who tried to set a bus on fire, died after falling off a building while fleeing in Dhaka’s Mohammadpur area during the nationwide daylong hartal enforced by BNP and Jamaat on Sunday.
The deceased was identified as Abdur Rashid, local government affairs secretary of Adabor ward 30 unit of BNP.
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Quoting witnesses, Mahfuzul Haque, officer-in-charge of Mohammadpur Police Station, said Rashid tried to set a bus on fire in Mohammadpur Town Hall area during the hartal.
At one stage, local people chased him, forcing him to run away.
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Being chased, he went to the rooftop of a building and fell from there while trying to jump to another building.
Police sent the body to the local hospital morgue.
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Aminul Haque, member secretary of Dhaka North unit of BNP, said that a group of “Awami League men beat Rashid up mercilessly and killed him after pushing him from an under-construction building.”
Pabna road accident leaves 2 dead
Two people were dead and two were injured in an accident involving a truck, a CNG run auto-rickshaw and a shallow engine on Ishwardi-Baneshwar road in Ishwardi upazila of Pabna district this morning.
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The deceased were identified as Ahsan Molla, 65, of Bagha upazila in Rajshahi district and Abdul Malek, 30, son of Ala Mandal of Ishwardi upazila.
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Quoting local, Arbindo Sarkar, officer-in-charge of Ishwardi Police Station, said the accident occurred in the morning near Govt. Sara Marwari Model School and College when the truck, CNG-run auto-rickshaw and a shallow engine crashed into each other, leaving two passengers of the three wheeler dead on the spot and two injured.
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The injured were taken to Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital.
Two children drown in Natore
Two children drowned in a pond in Natore’s Baraigram upazila on Sunday.
The deceased were identified as Anat and his cousin Humaira, both were three years old.
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Locals said Humaira came from Faridpur with her mother to visit her grandfather’s house in Jonail Chaumuhan village of Baraigram upazila. She went missing while playing with her cousin Anat around 10 am.
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After a hectic search, the bodies of the two children were found floating in a nearby ditch. They were immediately rescued taken to the Upazila Health Complex where doctors declared them dead.
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Local Jonail UP chairman Abul Kalam Azad confirmed the deaths.
Young couple ‘commit suicide’ in Magura: Police
A young man and his lover allegedly committed suicide by consuming poison at Baraichara village in Magura Sadar upazila, police said.
The deceased was identified as Swagatam Biswas, 20, and Rupa Sarkar, 25. They were neighbours.
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Magura Police Station Officer-in-Charge Sikandar Ali said, Rupa Sarkar got married to Sujan Sarkar, brother-in-law of Swagatam Biswas's sister, six months ago. As they lived in the same area, the love affair gradually got deeper.
Later, a dispute erupted between their families over their relationship. At around 1:00am last night, both Swagatam and Rupa went out of their houses and ingested poison together, said OC Sikandar Ali .
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Later, the family members rescued them and admitted them to Magura Sadar Hospital where they died in the early hours of Friday.
Dr Md Ehsanul Haque Masum, emergency medical officer of Sadar Hospital, said,Rupa and Swagatam were admitted to Magura Sadar Hospital late at night after consuming poison.
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They later died during treatment, he added.
A case of unnatural death has been filed with Magura Police Station. The bodies have been sent to the morgue for autopsy.
2 workers die being crushed under wheels of truck in Barishal
Three workers died in separate road accidents in the west Kaunia and Jatrabari areas of Barishal city.
The deceased were identified as Yunus (59) and Habib (38) and Mizan Howladar (48).
In one of the incidents, two workers died after being crushed under the wheels of a sand-laden truck in west Kaunia.
The incident happened on the road adjacent to Hazera Khatun School in West Kaunia around 1:00 am on Friday.
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According to police and locals, Yunus, Habib, and some other workers were working to move the truck that got stuck in the sand. As the truck reversed suddenly, they (Yunus and Habib) were crushed under its wheels and died on the spot.
"We rushed to the spot and found the two workers dead under the wheels of the truck," said Rabiul Alamin,senior station officer of Barisal Sadar Fire Service and Civil Defence.
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"No one could say whether the truck was reversed by its driver or whether it went backwards on its own," he added.
"The bodies were sent to Barishal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital for autopsy," said Shahidul Islam, sub-inspector of Kaunia Police Station.
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Meanwhile, Md Asaduzzaman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Kaunia Police Station, said a complaint has yet to be filed over the matter.
In the other incident, a mahindra driver died on his way to Barishal city.
The vehicle lost control and hit a tree in Jatrabari’s Uttar Korapur area on Friday morning.
Woman with intellectual disability dies in Natore fire
A 40-year-old woman with intellectual disability was burned to death while two sustained burn injuries in a fire that broke out at their house at Naupara in Lalpur upazila of Natore district on Tuesday night.
The deceased was identified as Shahnaz Begum, daughter of Ramjan Ali of the village.
Ujjal Hossain, officer-in-charge of Lalpur Police Station, said a fire broke out at Shahnaz’s house, originating from a lamp, at 9 pm and spread soon.
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Hearing screams, neighbors rushed to the spot but failed to douse the fire.
On information, a firefighting unit recovered the body of Shahnaz and rescued two Mayesha Khatun, 8, Shahnaz’s daughter; and Yeatul Begum, 70, from the house.
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The injured were taken to a local hospital and later shifted to Rajshahi Medical College and Hospital.
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A fire at a wedding hall in northern Iraq kills at least 114 people and injures 150, authorities say
A fire that raced through a hall hosting a Christian wedding in northern Iraq killed at least 100 people and injured 150 others, authorities said Wednesday, warning the death toll could rise higher.
The fire happened in Iraq's Nineveh province in its Hamdaniya area, authorities said. That's a predominantly Christian area just outside of the city of Mosul, some 335 kilometers (205 miles) northwest of the capital, Baghdad.
Television footage showed flames rushing over the wedding hall as the fire took hold. In the blaze's aftermath, only charred metal and debris could be seen as people walked through the scene of the fire, the only light coming from television cameras and the lights of onlookers' mobile phones.
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Survivors arrived at local hospitals, receiving oxygen and bandaged, as their families milled through hallways and outside as workers organized more oxygen cylinders.
The health department in Nineveh province raised the death toll to 114. Health Ministry spokesman Saif al-Badr earlier put the number of injured at 150 via the state-run Iraqi News Agency.
“All efforts are being made to provide relief to those affected by the unfortunate accident,” al-Badr said.
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani ordered an investigation into the fire and asked the country's Interior and Health officials to provide relief, his office said in a statement online.
Najim al-Jubouri, the provincial governor of Nineveh, said some of the injured had been transferred to regional hospitals. He cautioned there were no final casualty figures yet from the blaze, which suggests the death toll still may rise.
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There was no immediate official word on the cause of the blaze but initial reports by the Kurdish television news channel Rudaw suggested fireworks at the venue may have sparked the fire.
Civil defense officials quoted by the Iraqi News Agency described the wedding hall's exterior as being decorated with highly flammable cladding that were illegal in the country.
“The fire led to the collapse of parts of the hall as a result of the use of highly flammable, low-cost building materials that collapse within minutes when the fire breaks out,” civil defense said.
It wasn't immediately clear why authorities in Iraq allowed the cladding to be used on the hall, though corruption and mismanagement remains endemic two decades after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.
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While some types of cladding can be made with fire-resistant material, experts say those that have caught fire at the wedding hall and elsewhere weren’t designed to meet stricter safety standards and often were put onto buildings without any breaks to slow or halt a possible blaze. That includes the 2017 Grenfell Fire in London that killed 72 people in the greatest loss of life in a fire on British soil since World War II, as well as multiple high-rise fires in the United Arab Emirates.
The fire was the latest disaster to strike Iraq’s shrinking Christian minority, which over the past two decades has been violently targeted by extremists first from al-Qaida and then the Islamic State militant group. Although the Nineveh plains, the historic homeland, was wrested back from the Islamic State group six years ago, some towns are still mostly rubble and lack basic services. Many Christians have left for Europe, Australia or the United States.
The number of Christians in Iraq today is estimated at 150,000, compared to 1.5 million in 2003. Iraq’s total population is more than 40 million.
2 children, mother die as haystack falls on them in Feni
A 35-year-old woman and her two minor children died as a haystack collapsed on them at Dakkhin Dharmapur village in Fulgazi upazila of Feni district on Wednesday morning.The deceased were identified as Sumi Akter, wife of Tipu Sultan, a Bangladeshi expatriate in Bahrain and her two children—Shahid, 5 and Siam, 2.Abul Hashim, officer-in-charge of Fulgazi police station, said Sumi was cutting hay from the haystack for feeding cattle in the morning. Her two children were also there.
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Explosion at Sylhet CNG filling station: 2 more die in Dhaka
Two more people, who were undergoing treatment at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery (SHNIBPS) in Dhaka with burn injuries, died on Monday, raising the death toll from an explosion at a Sylhet CNG filling station to four.
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The deceased were identified as Tarek Ahmed, 32, son of Gias Uddin of Sadar upazila and Badal Das, 41, son of Arjun Das of Sunamganj district.
Tariqul Islam, resident medical officer of the burn institute, said Tarek received 35 percent burn injuries and he died early this morning and Badal also succumbed to his injuries in the morning.
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Nine people were injured in an explosion at Biroti CNG Filling Station that triggered a fire in Sylhet's Mirabazar area on September 5.
Belal Ahmed, senior station manager of Sylhet Fire Service, said the explosion occurred in the compressor room as the safety bulb went off with a big bang, triggering fire.
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Of the injured, Rumel Siddique of Korbantila and Imon Ahmed, 32 of Tukerbazar succumbed to their injuries at SHNIBPS on September 11 and September 12 respectively.