Seven people were killed and five injured after a microbus hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Gowainghat upazila of Sylhet yesterday. The accident occurred after one of the front tyres of the microbus burst.
The Atrai riverbank in Natore’s Singra upazila is at risk of erosion because of alleged illegal sand-lifting by the local upazila parishad (UP) chairman.
Water levels rose in some low-lying areas of Sylhet and Sunamganj due to heavy rain in the country’s northeastern region and water flowing in from the upstream of India’s Meghalaya yesterday.