The fire that broke out at Rangpur Medical College and Hospital on Monday morning has been brought under control. Md Salehuddin, a deputy director at the Rangpur Fire Service, said the fire broke out at the corridor of Ward No 7 on the third floor of the hospital around 10 am. Read:Furniture factory in Naogaon catches fire On information, six units of firefighters rushed to the spot and brought the fire under control after one hour of efforts.  Five firefighters suffered burn injuries while trying to extinguish the blaze. All the 38 patients of the ward were moved to a safer place when the fire had broken out, Salehuddin said. The fire gutted furniture, hospital beds and medical equipment of the ward, he said, adding that the origin of the fire could not be known yet.

Five people were killed and 12 others injured in a head-on collision between two buses on Dhaka-Rangpur highway near Boldipukur  in Mithapukur upazila of Rangpur early Sunday. The identities of the deceased could not be known yet. Read:Two youths killed in Naogaon road crash Police said a Rangpur-bound bus of Johana Paribahan collided head-on with a Dhaka-bound bus of Selfie Paribahan around 7:50 am, leaving five people dead on the spot. Later, fire fighters rescued the injured and rushed them to a nearby Health Complex and Rangpur Medical College Hospital. Read:Three killed in Thakurgaon road crash Aminuzzaman, officer-in-charge of Mithapukur Police Station, said the condition of two of the injured is critical.

A worker of Jamjam Feed Mills died on Friday after his fellow worker pumped air through his rectum at Dewantuli in Mahiganj of Rangpur.

Post-COVID patient with pneumonia Dental Surgeon of Rangpur Medical College Hospital Dr. Abdul Wahab was medevaced (medically evacuated) from Mymensingh to Dhaka in a critical condition on Tuesday by AW-139 helicopter of Bangladesh Air Force.

Parliament Member of Kurigram-3 constituency MA Matin was diagnosed with Coronavirus on Friday.

Nine people died and six others fell ill after drinking ‘toxic liquor’ in Dinajpur and Rangpur on Tuesday night and Wednesday

A deputy assistant engineer of Kurigram office of the Education Engineering Department (EED), who had been undergoing treatment at Rangpur Medical College Hospital with fever, cold and respiratory problem, has died.   The deceased was identified as Zubaidul Islam.

Police on Sunday recovered the body of a college girl stuffed inside a sack from Mominpur area in Sadar Upazila.

A female Chinese national was admitted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH) with fever on Sunday.

Another Bangladeshi student, who returned from China on Sunday morning, was shifted to  Kurmitola General Hospital from Rangpur on Monday noon.