All three members of the same family who suffered burn injuries in an explosion in Narayanganj's Bandar upazila have passed away. Most recently, the head of the family, Maidul Islam, 24, died while undergoing treatment at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery on Tuesday morning. Prior to this, his eight-year-old son Maruf passed away on Saturday, followed by his wife Beauty Akter, 22, on Monday.
Three high-profile individuals from Satkhira—all bearing the same name, Nazrul Islam—appeared before the courts on the same day. While one of them secured bail from the high court, the other two were ordered to be sent to jail.
Speakers at a function on Tuesday said that a section of people of Kalihati in Tangail wanted to remove the name of Rabeya Siraj, wife of the late Shahjahan Siraj, the reader of the Declaration of Independence and one of the organizers of the Liberation War of Bangladesh, from Rabeya Siraj High School.
Bullets were reportedly fired targeting the gate of an expatriate businessman's building in the Hamjarbagh area under Panchlaish Police Station in Chattogram city after a demand for 5 million taka in extortion went unmet. The incident took place around 11pm, spreading panic among local residents on Monday (August 10).
A 60-year-old woman was allegedly raped after being lured out of the Jhalakathi Sadar Hospital on the pretext of being given food. Police have arrested two individuals in connection with the incident.
Police have recovered the body of a 22-year-old housewife named Munni Akter in Mohonganj upazila of Netrokona. Her husband and members of her in-laws' family are absconding following the incident.