At least four passengers of a train were killed and scores of others injured in a suspected arson attack on Friday in Dhaka, police said, ahead of Bangladesh’s national elections at the weekend, which are being boycotted by a major opposition group. Firefighters retrieved the charred bodies of the passengers from inside the burnt-out carriages of the Benapole Express train, Khandaker Al Moin of the Rapid Action Battalion unit of the police said at the scene. Passengers noticed the fire only a fe
At least four passengers of a train were killed and scores of others injured in a suspected arson attack on Friday in Dhaka, police said, ahead of Bangladesh’s national elections at the weekend, which are being boycotted by a major opposition group. Firefighters retrieved the charred bodies of the passengers from inside the burnt-out carriages of the Benapole Express train, Khandaker Al Moin of the Rapid Action Battalion unit of the police said at the scene. Passengers noticed the fire only a fe
The two walls on the second floor collapsed due to the explosion. The building still seems risky, Mohid Uddin, an additional superintendent of Ramna Division Police, told reporters after visiting the ravaged floor
A police official was arrested after shooting to death a woman, her seven-year-old son, and a man in broad daylight in Kushtia town yesterday. The incident took place in Customs Junction area around 11:45am. The victims are Asma Khatun, 27, her son Robin, and Shakil Khan, 34. All of them are from Naturia village of Kushtia's Kumarkhali upazila.