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Three motorcycle riders were killed when a private car hit their bike on the Konabari flyover in Gazipur on Friday noon, police said. The deceased have been identified as Raju Islam, 26, Md Shamim, 26 and Shahin Islam, 31, from Konabari’s Dewliyapara area. A three-year-old kid was severely injured in the crash and sent to hospital. The car and the motor bike were badly damaged, police said. According to the police, the four were going to Baimail from Konabari College Gate area. A private car hit them while they were crossing the Konabari flyover. All of them fell off the flyover, which resulted in the instant death of two riders and serious injuries of the other two. Read: Road crash leaves one dead in city Raju died on his way to hospital, while Raisa, the injured kid, has been sent to Pangu Hospital (National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedic Rehabilitation) for treatment. Bodies of the deceased have been sent to hospital for autopsy, police said.   Legal procedure regarding the accident is under way, said Md Shakhawat Imtiaz, a Sub-Inspector (SI) of Konabari police station.

Police rescued 20 tourists, including women and children, after their boat ran out of fuel amid rain and got stuck on Kaptai Lake in Rangamati district on Thursday night According to Additional Superintendent of Rangamati police Mahmuda Begum, the tourists went to Kaptai lake from Chattogram’s Agrabad. They got stranded on the lake as fuel of their engine boat ran out amid heavy rain along with gusty wind triggering panic. Read: Rangamati tourism needs big boost “Someone from the group called 999 and informed us about the situation. A team of Rangamati police rescued the tourists from the lake’s Peda Ting Ting area and brought them to the district police’s Polwell park at about 8:00pm on Thursday night,” said Mahmuda. Md Rashed, one of the tourists, said that he called 999 and informed police about their situation.   The tourists lauded Rangamati district police for their quick response.

The body of a final-year student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) was fished out of the Padma River on Friday, nearly 24 hours he went missing. The deceased was identified as Tariquzzaman Sunny. Also read: Two farmers go missing as boat capsizes in Sunamganj haor Mostafa Kamal, officer-in-charge of Dohar police station, said that Sunny went missing while bathing in the river with three of his friends at Moinot Ghat in Dhaka's Dohar upazila around noon on Thursday. Also read: Missing tourist’s body fished out of Kishoreganj haor Members of the Fire Service fished out his body around 11am, he said. A case of unnatural death has been filed in this regard and the body will be handed over to the deceased's family after an autopsy, said OC Mostafa.

Sylhet on Thursday witnessed its hottest day in July in 66 years, at 38.9 degrees Celsius. After receiving highest rainfall in June in 64 years that triggered massive floods across the district, Sylhet is now reeling under an intense heat wave. “Such a high temperature was last recorded in the district in July 1956. On Wednesday, the temperature was recorded at 37.3 degrees. And it was recorded at 36.3 degrees on Tuesday,” said Sayeed Ahmad Chowdhury, a senior meteorologist with the Sylhet met office. On Thursday, the roads of Sylhet city wore a deserted look. A handful of people who had stepped out in the afternoon were equipped with umbrellas and water bottles. Meanwhile, the met office said the ongoing heatwave may continue for one or two days more and showers may occur after 72 hours. Also read: Mild heatwave sweeps 27 districts Meteorologist Tariful Newaz Kabir said, “Little showers may occur at a few places but it won’t be enough to reduce the heat. Rainfall activity may increase after July 17 or 18.” “Excess humidity is compounding the woes of the residents. This humidity is due to the seasonal trough,” he added. Also read: Heat wave, flooding leave multiple people dead in China

Two Bangladeshi nationals were injured after being shot at allegedly by members of the Indian Khashi community in the Majhergaon border area of Sylhet's Companiganj upazila Thursday. The shooting occurred around noon near the eighth sub-pillar area of pillar number 1255, said Lieutenant Colonel Saiful Islam Chowdhury, commander of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), Camp 48. Read: Bangladeshi shot dead ‘by BSF’ along Lalmonirhat border The injured have been identified as Sudhangsu Das, 45, son of Hemanta Das, and Mukhlesur Rahman, 30, son of Tota Mia of Majhergaon village, he said. “They were shot at as they went near the border to cut grass for their cows. Both of the injured were rushed to hospital and are said to be out of danger,” the officer added.

An 11-year-old girl has drowned while bathing in the Ataro Beki river in Khulna, police said on Friday. The deceased was identified as Bushra, daughter of Shahabur Rahman of Chandpur village under Rupsha upazila. Locals said that Bushra was bathing in the river with her family members around 1pm on Thursday. Read: Two minor children drown in Sylhet At one stage, the girl slipped into deep water and went missing. Locals fished out her body around 8pm, police said.  The girl was immediately rushed to Rupsha upazila health complex, where doctors declared her dead on arrival.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has detained 18 people with 2,000 kg of gel-injected shrimps from the Koiya Bazar area of Khulna's Horintana upazila. Acting on a tip-off that the accused were coming to Khulna from Satkhira with a large consignment of shrimps injected with gel to increase their weight, a Rab team laid a trap and intercepted 2-3 vehicles to make the seizure on Thursday night. The detainees will be handed over to the police, Rab sources said. Read: Coast Guard seizes over 6MT shrimps inflated with jelly

Two minor children drowned in a pond at Kamargaon village in Osmaninagar upazila of Sylhet Thursday. The deceased were identified as Sumayel Ahmad, 5, son of Patir Ahmad, and Jakia Sultana, 4, daughter of Fusba Begum. Quoting locals, SM Mayeen Uddin, Officer-in-charge (OC) of Osmaninagar police station, said the two children drowned in the pond while they were bathing at noon. Read: Youth drowns in city Later, relatives and locals recovered the bodies from the pond. An unnatural death case was filed at the police station, the OC added.

Awami League lawmaker from Rajshahi-1 Omar Faruk Chowdhury and principal of Rajabari Degree College Selim Reza both have trashed  the media reports on assault on the principal by the MP. They held a press conference in the city on Thursday after different newspapers ran reports over the incident, sparking criticism across the country. The press conference was held at political office of MP Omar Faruk Chowdhury in Rajshahi city in presence of principal Selim Reza and Abdul Awal Raju, principal of Matikata Degree College. Selim Reza said,” Abdul Awal had called me to visit MP Faruk’s office on July 7 where I found  seven other principals and vice-principals of different colleges after reaching there.  Later an altercation began among us over forming principal forum committee and other internal issues.” “MP Omar Faruk had to intervene to stop us, nothing else happened that day,” he said. MP Omar Faruk said a syndicate provided false information to create issues and different media presented distorted version the incident of clash among the college teachers. “I mainly called them to exchange Eid greetings but they locked into argument and principal Selim and Abdul Awal attacked each other which I had to stop,” he added. Read: Barishal college teacher assaulted by ‘JCD leader’ The ruling party lawmaker allegedly physically assaulted Principal Selim Reza on Tuesday, according to different media reports.   Later, National University formed a three-member committee to investigate the incident on Wednesday. 

Three people were arrested in a case filed over the murder of a Jubo Dal leader from Jashore town Thursday morning. The detainees were Al Amin, Raihan, 25, and Icha Mir, 20, of the town. Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-6) detained  Al Amin this morning, said Rab-6 Jashore squad commander ASP Shafiqur Rahman. Police arrested Raihan, prime accused in the case, and Icha Mir from the town in the morning, said Superintendent of Police (SP) Prolay Kumar at a press conference. During primary interrogation, the arrestees confessed that there had been a dispute between local BNP leader Shamim Ahmed Manua and deceased Jubo Dal leader Badiuzzaman Dhani over establishing dominance. Dhani was also made an accused in the murder case of Manua's son-in-law Yasin following the dispute. Read: 4 to die for killing schoolboy in N’ganj Later, Manua’s nephew Raihan killed Dhani following the  instruction of Manua, said SP Prolay. On Tuesday noon, Dhani, 42, senior vice president of Jashore District Jubo Dal, was hacked to death allegedly by some miscreants in Jashore town. Some miscreants hacked Dhani indiscriminately at Chopdar Para in Shankarpur around 12pm and fled the scene, leaving him seriously injured, said Tajul Islam, officer-in-charge (OC) of Kotwali police station. Later, he was rushed to Jashore General Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries, he added.