Three teenagers were killed and at least 20 people, including a child, were injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a motorcycle in Fatikchhari upazila of Chattogram on Monday evening.
The Detective Branch (DB) of district police has arrested seven leaders of the Students Against Discrimination (SAD) Jhenaidah district unit over allegations of setting buses on fire and vandalising an oil pump. They were arrested around 2:00 am on Monday, March 9, from Beparipara and Payra Chottor areas in Jhenaidah municipality. Police produced them before court on Monday afternoon.
A man named Anisur Rahman alias Behudla, 60, was killed in an attack on an arbitration meeting at Court Bazar in Shibganj Municipality area of Chapainawabganj. At least four people, including the deceased's son, were injured in the incident.
Initiatives are being taken to bring back to the country the two accused arrested in India in the murder case of Inquilab Manch spokesperson Shaheed Sharif Osman Bin Hadi, Home Minister Salahuddin Ahmed has said. At the same time, cautioning against the tendency to view recent incidents as 'mob justice', he said not every incident should be termed mob justice; in many cases, these are isolated crimes.
An Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI Lutfar Rahman) of police fell victim to muggers while on duty in Narayanganj city. The muggers looted his government-issued pistol.
A young man named Md Masum, 20, allegedly committed suicide unable to bear the humiliation of a 'nose-rubbing' punishment ordered by a village arbitration over accusations of stealing ducks in Faridganj upazila, Chandpur, his family has alleged.