The Honourable Prime Minister (the then Leader of the Opposition) Sheikh Hasina, and the leaders of the Awami League miraculously survived a horrific grenade attack at an Awami League rally on August 21, 2004. However, 24 Awami League leaders and activists including Ivy Rahman were killed. Hundreds were injured. Many have been crippled forever. Some of them never got back to normal life.
Two people were killed and two others were injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a covered van on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Bijoynagar upazila of Brahmanbaria this (August 1, 2022) afternoon.