Police have rescued four female students who went missing from Baliadangi Upazila in Thakurgaon. The girls left home on the pretext of going for private tuition but did not return. They were rescued from a ticket counter at Kadamtali Bus Terminal in South Surma, Sylhet, while waiting to go towards Gowainghat on Wednesday afternoon (1 July).
In Jiyanagar Upazila, three teachers of a Hefz Madrasa have been accused of tying up an 11-year-old student by his hands and feet and beating him with a cane. Though the matter was resolved through local arbitration, the victim's family has expressed anger as no punitive action was taken against the accused.
Police have uncovered the mystery behind the murder of housewife Najma Alam, 51, in the Biswas Betka area of Tangail town. The local mosque muezzin, who had gone to the spot with neighbours after the murder expressing concern and demanded the arrest of the killers in front of the media, has been identified as the main accused in the case.
Unidentified criminals shot and killed a 25-year-old youth named Md. Azad in the Panchlaish police station area of Chatogram. The incident occurred around 3:45pm at Forest Gate in the Muradpur area of the police station on Wednesday.
Two of the six people burnt in a fire on a fishing trawler anchored in the Karnaphuli River in Chattogram have died on the way to Dhaka.
A local leader of the Bangladesh Labour Party was allegedly hacked and beaten to death in a late-night attack in Patuakhali's Sadar Upazila, prompting a police investigation and a manhunt for those responsible.