United News of Bangladesh

A rickshaw-puller was killed as a tree fell on him while cutting it at Kachua Para in Patgram upazila in Lalmonirhat district on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Rahmat Ali ,47, son of late Posor Mamud from Kachua Para area. Police said when Rahamat Ali was cutting a tree in the afternoon on the land of a nearby graveyard the tree fell on him, leaving him seriously injured. Land dispute in Pabna; one killed, another injured Local people  rescued him but he succumbed to his injuries on the way to Patgram Upazila Health Complex. Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Patgram police station  Mizanur Rahman said police were sent to the scene after receiving the news.

Police on Thursday arrested the puller of the ill-fated rickshaw that was hit by a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Tuesday night, resulting in the death of a female doctor in the port city. Dr Samina Akter, a mother of two children and a doctor at Southern Medical College and Hospital, succumbed to her injuries at Chattogram Medical College and Hospital after battling for her life for nearly two days. Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) nabbed Mohammad Hridoy, 19, son of Md Nasir Uddin of Cumilla district, around 9pm on Thursday from the Old Station Road area of the port city after CCTV footage of the accident went viral on social media. Also read: Female physician injured in Ctg road crash dies “From the CCTV footage, it appeared that the accident occurred due to the reckless driving of the auto driver and the rickshaw puller’s negligence,” said Md Nezam Uddin, officer-in-charge of Kotwali police station. The accident occurred in the city's Kazir Dewri area when Dr Samina was returning home. She later underwent a surgery at Chattogram Medical College and Hospital as she had sustained severe head injuries and a chest bone fracture. Also read: Woman, her grandchild die in Gazipur road accident "The auto-rickshaw driver, named Siddique, was arrested immediately after the accident on Tuesday," the OC said.

A rickshaw-puller was kept at the isolation ward of Kushtia General Hospital on Friday after he went there for treatment with fever, cough and breathing complications.   Family members took the 45-year-old man to the hospital around 2pm, said Dr Tapas Kumar Sarkar, resident medical officer at the hospital.   He said the man has been showing such symptoms for the last three days and on Thursday his breathing complications worsened.