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The bodies of a couple and their two children have been found inside a home in Dhaka’s Wapda Bihari camp area, as investigators began an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the deaths. Police identified the deceased as Mohamamd Masum, 35, his wife Fatema Akter Sumi, 30, and their two children-- Minhaz, 4, and Asad, 2. Farzina Nasrin, additional deputy police commissioner (Mirpur), said Masum, a rickshaw-puller used to live with his family at a tin-shed house at Wapda-3 building in Pallabi-11 area. His wife used to work as a domestic help in different households. Read More: Police constable found dead at Jatrabari police camp According to local people, the family had taken loans from various local associations and was under heavy debt. They said lenders frequently visited their house to demand repayment. “It primarily appears that the couple killed their two children before committing suicide,” said Farzina Nasrin. An investigation is underway to ascertain the exact cause behind the deaths of four people, she added.

Police recovered the body of a female student of Rajshahi University (RU) hanging from the ceiling of a house adjacent to the university area in Meherchandi of Rajshahi on Friday. The deceased was identified as Zobaida Islam Ety, a student of the Department of Social Work. Manirul Islam, officer-in-charge of Chandrima Police Station, said Zobaida had been living in a rented house in the area. Motorcycle rider killed in truck accident in Sylhet Zobaida was found hanging from the ceiling of her room on Friday evening and was later taken to the emergency department of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital, where doctors declared her dead, said RU Proctor Mahbubur Rahman. Police suspected that Ety might have committed suicide. An investigation is underway in this regard, the OC said.

A 32-year-old woman and her minor daughter were stabbed to death at Dakkhin Rajanagar in Sirajdikhan upazila of Munshiganj district on Monday. The deceased were identified as Amena Begum, wife of Mizan Mia and their eight-year-old girl Mariam. Abdul Hannan, Officer-in-Charge of Sirajdikhan police station, said Amena Begum along with her family used to live at the rented house of one Nuruzzaman Sarkar. Getting no response from the house till noon, local people entered the house and found the bodies of Amena and her daughter. Read More: 'Toxic liquor’: Death toll rises to 6 in Rangpur Upon receiving information, police recovered the bodies and sent those to a local hospital morgue. Police said the husband went into hiding. Preliminary findings suggest the killings may have been linked to family disputes or an extramarital affair, said the OC. Police are investigating the incidents and trying to arrest Mizan, he said.

A man was killed in a clash allegedly between two groups of BNP supporters following the inauguration of an election office of an independent candidate in Dhobaura upazila of Mymensingh on Friday evening. The deceased was identified as Nazrul Islam, 40, son of Mofiz Uddin of Ramsinghpur village of the upazila and an activist of independent candidate Salman Omar Rubel.   Additional Superintendent of Police (Finance and Administration) Abdullah Al Mamun said Salman Omar Rubel went to Ershad Bazar on Friday evening to inaugurate his election office. After the programme ended and he was leaving the area, supporters of BNP-nominated candidate and BNP Joint Secretary General Syed Emran Saleh Prince allegedly attacked Rubel’s supporters, triggering a clash. During the clash, Nazrul Islam was stabbed by rivals. Locals rushed him to Dhobaura Upazila  Health Complex where doctors declared him dead. Following the incident, tension has been prevailing in the area. Independent candidate Salman Omar Rubel alleged that Prince’s supporters carried out a sudden attack from behind after the office inauguration. He demanded the immediate arrest of those involved in the killing of his supporter. BNP-nominated candidate for Mymensingh-1 (Haluaghat-Dhobaura) constituency Syed Emran Saleh Prince said he was not fully aware of the incident as he was in Haluaghat at the time. BNP leader Alamgir murder case: fourth suspect arrested in Jashore “From what I have initially heard, the incident stemmed from a family dispute. Attempts are being made to give it a political colour,” he said.  If it is found that anyone linked to our party is involved,  action will be taken, he added. Dhobaura police station  Officer-in-Charge (OC) Md Shafikul Islam said  police visited the scene and legal action is underway.

An unidentified man died early Tuesday after falling from the fourth-floor staircase of Khulna Medical College Hospital. Dr Bablu, an on-duty physician at the hospital, said the incident took place around 5:40 am. Witnesses said the man, aged around 48, reportedly slipped while coming down the railing-side staircase of the hospital’s orthopaedics department. He was rushed to the emergency unit immediately after the fall, where doctors declared him dead. Lightning strikes leave two dead in Kushtia Hospital sources said the victim had earlier been rescued in an unconscious state, suspected of poisoning, near the toll plaza of Rupsha Bridge around 12:30 am by two men identified as Azizul and Osman. He was admitted to the hospital around 2 am and placed in Ward No. 19–20 of Medicine Unit-5. Dr Bablu said the man’s identity has not yet been confirmed. Police and hospital authorities have launched an investigation into the incident.

The body of a housewife was recovered from her house in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur district on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Aklima Akter, a garment worker and wife of Adnan Islam of Muktagacha upazila in Mymensingh. The couple used to live in a rented house in Abdar area of Sreepur. Quoting locals, police said neighbours heard the sound of crying of the couple’s minor child from the house for a long time in the morning. Getting no response from the house despite repeated calls, the neighbors entered the house and found the body lying inside it, police said.  3 killed by lightning strikes in Chapainawabganj Officer-in-charge of Sreepur police station Mohammad Abdul Barik said being informed the recovered the body and sent it to Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmad Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy. The body bore marks of injuries on forehead and face, he said.  3 to die for killing college student in Kishoreganj The husband fled following the suspected murder, he said. Legal action will be taken in this regard, he added.

A shooting at a Las Vegas gym on Friday afternoon left two people dead — one of them the suspected gunman — and injured at least three others, according to police. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Undersheriff Andrew Walsh reported that the incident began when shots were fired inside the Las Vegas Athletic Club on the city’s west side, killing one person. Police stated that officers shot the suspect, who was armed, as he attempted to flee the building. He was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital, according to a social media update from the department. Three other individuals were wounded in the incident and taken to local hospitals, with one reported to be in critical condition. Ukraine-Russia political theatrics underscore stark realities on the ground as war grinds on Walsh said there was no longer a threat to the public. Officials said they were still investigating a motive. “They said ‘Get out, get out, get out,’” Claudio Vigani, a witness who was at the gym when the shooting began, told KLAS-TV. “Then I saw the dead guy next to the machine.” Gary Steward, who was headed to the gym with another person, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that a stop at a nutrition store saved their lives. He said if they hadn’t stopped, they would have been at the front desk where the shooter entered. They saw glass breaking as they walked up to the gym and ran back to the parking lot. “It’s just a weird feeling right now,” Steward said. “It’s strange. Who shoots up a gym?” Calls to the athletic club and its corporate office went unanswered.      

Tzeela Gez was on her way to the hospital to bring new life into this world when hers was suddenly cut short. As her husband drove their car through the winding roads of the occupied West Bank late Wednesday, a Palestinian attacker shot at them. Within hours, Gez, nine months pregnant, was dead. Doctors barely saved the life of the baby, who is in serious but stable condition. Israel says it is trying to prevent such attacks by waging a monthslong crackdown on West Bank militants that intensified earlier this year. But the escalating offensive, which has killed hundreds of Palestinians over 19 months, displaced tens of thousands and caused widespread destruction, has ultimately not snuffed out attacks. And the latest bloodshed is only likely to fuel a cycle of violence that has persisted for decades between Israelis and Palestinians. Israel has pledged to find the attacker, who fled the scene, and the military chief of staff, who visited the area Thursday, told troops that the broader operation would continue alongside the manhunt. "We will use all the tools at our disposal and reach the murderers in order to hold them accountable,” Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said, according to a statement from the military, which said it had sealed Palestinian villages in the area of the attack and set up checkpoints. The shooting, especially because the victim was a pregnant mother with three other children, has the potential to ignite vigilante violence against Palestinians by radical Jewish settlers. They regularly storm Palestinian towns and villages, burning and damaging property, in response to such attacks. Marauding settlers are rarely held to account for their actions and Palestinians are left to pick up the pieces of the destruction with little recourse to compensation or assistance from Israeli authorities.  54 killed in overnight Israeli airstrikes on Southern Gaza’s Khan Younis ‘A mother in her essence’ Gez, 37, and her husband Hananel, were residents of Bruchin, a settlement of some 2,900 in the northern West Bank. She worked as a therapist and on her Facebook page, shared developments in her professional life as well as her thoughts on the war in Gaza, the fallen Israeli soldiers and the hostages still held by Hamas. Meital Ben Yosef, head of the settlement's local council, told Israeli Army radio that Gez was “all mother. A mother in her essence.” “A couple of parents were driving to the happiest moment that a parent can experience and the wife is killed on the way. It’s a horrific incident,” she said. Photos of the car released by the military showed a bullet hole on the passenger side of the windshield and a streak of blood on a back door. Soldiers searched the rugged brush on the sides of the road following the attack, according to video released by the Israeli military. Abu Obeida, spokesman for Hamas’ armed wing, praised the attack as “heroic” in a video statement Wednesday but stopped short of saying the militant group was behind it. On Thursday, military checkpoints slowed down traffic on roads in the vicinity of the attack, and many Palestinian motorists were at a standstill as they tried to make their journeys, according to video shared on social media. Concern about reprisal attacks The attack sparked outrage and calls for revenge. “Just as we are flattening Rafah, Khan Younis and Gaza, we must flatten the nests of terror in Judea and Samaria,” wrote the Israeli finance minister and a settler firebrand, Bezalel Smotrich, in a post on X, referring to the West Bank by its biblical name.  Israeli airstrikes in Gaza kill 60, including 22 children The violence in the West Bank escalated when the war in Gaza erupted with Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel. Israel has staged frequent raids in the territory, especially but not limited to its north, using ground and air power in violence that has killed many militants but also other Palestinians, some of them throwing rocks to protest the incursions as well as others not involved in confrontations. Israel occupied the West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war, along with Gaza and east Jerusalem, all territories the Palestinians seek for a future independent state. Around 500,000 Jewish settlers now live in about 130 settlements scattered across the West Bank. Much of the international community views settlements as illegal and an obstacle to Palestinian statehood. Israel views the West Bank as its biblical heartland and believes the fate of the settlements should be determined in peace negotiations, which have been moribund for some 15 years. Israel says much of the Palestinian militancy in the West Bank is fueled by Iran and views the fighting there as part of its ongoing multifront wars to secure its borders and prevent a second Oct. 7-style attack. UN humanitarian chief blasts Israel for 'deliberately' blocking aid to Gaza

A youth died from electrocution at  Kumargaon in Sylhet city early Thursday. The deceased is Md. Jamil Ahmed,20, son of Garib Ullah of East Kalaruka area.  First Hajj flight from Sylhet leaves for Madinah He used to work as a security guard at Lutfunnesa Hall,  a women’s hotel in Kumargaon area. SI Mushfiqur Rahman, in-charge of Shiber Bazar police outpost, said that Jamil, who got electrocuted in the hall room, was rescued at noon and taken to Mount Edora Hospital, where the doctor declared him dead. The body has been kept at the Osmani Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.  Crucial Sylhet road and bridge collapse into Kushiyara amid relentless erosion

A Jubo Dal activist was shot dead by miscreants at Garib Ullahpara in Raozan upazila of Chattogram district early Sunday. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Manik Abdullah, 36, son of Abdul Motaleb of Bhandari Colony in the upazila. Quoting witnesses, Mohammad Ali, sub-inspector of Raozan police station, said a group of miscreants swooped on the house of Manik around 1:30 am and opened fire on him, leaving him dead on the spot. On information, police recovered the body and sent it to Chattogram Medical College and Hospital morgue for autopsy. The miscreants managed to flee the scene by auto-rickshaw and motorbikes.