Five people have been killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a CNG-run autorickshaw on the Sylhet-Sunamganj highway. One of the deceased has been identified as Yusuf Ali of Tahirpur upazila in Sunamganj. The identities of the other four could not be known immediately.
There have been allegations that Awami League-backed lawyers were prevented from collecting their nomination papers in the Chattogram Bar Association elections. Pro-BNP and pro-Awami League lawyers raised slogans against each other over the incident.
A Rohingya child has died with measles symptoms in the Ukhiya Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar. The name of the deceased child was not known at the time of filing the report.
A huge amount of drugs and foreign firearms worth about 300 million taka have been recovered in a special operation by the Bangladesh Navy in Teknaf, Cox's Bazar. At the same time, the accused in several cases have been arrested.
The body of Zamil Ahmed Limon, the Bangladeshi PhD student killed in Florida, arrived in Dhaka on Monday morning and was taken to his ancestral home in Jamalpur's Madarganj upazila for burial. He will be laid to rest in the family graveyard next to his paternal grandparents after Maghrib prayers.
Three female passengers of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw were killed after a truck rammed into the vehicle in Muktagachha upazila of Mymensingh.