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Two women die by drowning in pond at JnU second campus
Rabeya, 14, and Julia, 20, have died after drowning in a pond while bathing at the second campus of Jagannath University (JnU). The accident took place at the under-construction campus of JnU in the Tegharia area of Keraniganj in the afternoon on Monday.
Youth dies after lightning strike on house rooftop in capital
Riaz, 18, a youth, has died after being struck by lightning on the rooftop of a house in Hazaribagh of the capital. His four-year-old niece Antara has been injured in the incident.
Madrasa teacher arrested on charge of raping child in Mohammadpur
Md Husain Ahmed, 48, a teacher, has been arrested by police on the charge of raping a 13-year-old student in Mohammadpur of the capital.
Two-month-old baby dies after assault by father in Darus Salam
A two-month-old baby died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital after allegedly being strangled and beaten by her father during a family dispute in the capital’s Darus Salam area.
Three prisoners die in one day at DMCH
Shahadat Hossain Liton, 52, Abul Bashar, 58, and Abdul Kaiyum, 62, have died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) in one day. One of them was an inmate of Kashimpur High Security Central Jail while the other two were inmates of Dhaka Central Jail. They died at separate times on Sunday morning.
‘I want to see him once before I die’, father’s plea to get back missing son
Ismail Hossain, a father whose son went missing, has said he wants to see his child once before death after searching for eight years without any success. Parents of missing children, some searching for eight years, some for one and a half months and others for just 38 days, broke down in tears as they demanded the return of their sons and daughters at a press conference held at the Shafiqul Kabir auditorium of Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) on Sunday.
Body on expressway: bus supervisor-assistant’s ‘confession’, driver on remand
Supervisor Saju Laskar and assistant Mahbub Alam Monir of ‘Raj Classic’ bus have given confessional statements in court in the murder case filed over the recovery of the body of bus passenger Ismail Hossain from Dhaka Elevated Expressway. In the same case bus driver Sohel Rana has been sent on four days’ remand for questioning.
Husband shot housewife in Darus Salam, says RAB
Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has arrested Abdul Mannan alias Abdul Hannan, the husband of housewife Jesmin Begum, for shooting her at their own house in Darus Salam of the capital. The organization is saying that the claim of miscreants firing from outside has not been found true in the investigation. Mannan himself shot his wife after becoming excited at one stage of a family quarrel.
Bus staffers killed passenger to loot money, dumped body on expressway: Police
Police have arrested a bus driver and two of his assistants in connection with the recovery of a body from the Dhaka Elevated Expressway, with the victim's mouth and hands bound with tape. Police claim the trio killed Ismail Hossain with the motive of robbing the money he was carrying.
Body with taped mouth found on Dhaka Elevated Expressway, driver held
A driver has been arrested in connection with the murder of a man whose body was found with his mouth taped on the Dhaka Elevated Expressway. The accused is Sohel Rana (40), arrested by RAB-1 from the capital's Mohakhali area on Saturday, September 5.