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2 motorcyclists killed in Faridpur road crash
Two motorcyclists were killed in Faridpur’s Gajaria area of Nagarkanda on Dhaka-Khulna highway as their motorcycle was hit by a bus on Friday night.
Sabit Hossain, 17, of Satkhira’s Shamnagar and Sourav Hossain, 16, of Norail’s Lohagora died in the bike crash occurred around 8 pm, said Bhanga Highway Police officer-in-charge (OC) Jahangir Arif.
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He said the accident occurred when the Dhaka-bound bus of Hamim Poribanhan from Khulna hit the Satkhira-bound motorcycle.
One of the motorcyclists, Sabit, died on the spot. Sourav was taken to Gopalganj's Muksudpur Upazila Health Complex in a critical condition where doctors declared him dead, the OC said.
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4 killed, 19 injured in Sirajganj bus crash
Four people were killed and 19 others injured as a bus overturned on a three-wheeler at Salanga on Hatikumrul-Bonpara highway of Sirajganj district.
Officer-in-charge (OC) of Hatikumrul Highway Police Lutfar Rahman said the bus on its way to Dhaka from Rajshahi lost control near Goja Bridge on the highway around 10 am and hit the battery-run van.
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He said four van passengers, including a woman, were killed on the spot and 19 others injured, three critically.
The deceased could not be identified yet, the OC said.
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Farmer shot dead in Chuadanga
A 55-year-old man was shot dead by miscreants at Nastipur village in Damurhuda upazila of Chuadanga district early Wednesday.
The deceased was identified as Hazrat Ali, son of Rois Uddin of the village.
AHM Lutful Kabir, officer-in-charge of Darshana Police Station, said miscreants shot Ali, a farmer, at his head through the window of his house in his sleep at the dead of night.
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Hearing the sound of the gunshot, the family members woke up and found Ali lying in a pool of blood. He was taken to a local hospital where doctors declared him dead around 3 am.
Ali’s family said he used to work as a source of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB.
Motorcyclist killed in Chattogram road crash
A motorcyclist was killed as a covered van hit his motorbike in Lohagara upazila on Chattogram-Cox's Bazar highway in Chattogram Saturday night.
The deceased was identified as Md Zakaria, 55, son of Mozahar Miah of upazila’s Fakir Para in Chhoto Dhemshar.
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Witnesses said Zakaria was coming to Lohagara on a motorcycle from Satkania.
When he reached Padua area, a speeding covered van hit his vehicle in front of Padua Baro Aulia Dargah, leaving dead on the spot around 9:30 pm.
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Dohazari Highway Police SI Babul Miah said he visited the spot.
Yemeni rebel attack on southern Saudi Arabia kills 2 people
A Yemeni rebel attack on Saudi Arabia's southern border town of Jizan killed two people and wounded seven more late Friday, Saudi state-run media reported.
Yemen's Houthi rebels launched a projectile that killed a Saudi citizen and Yemeni resident in the southwestern Saudi province of Jizan, the official Saudi Press Agency reported. Six of the wounded were Saudis anattacks d one was a Bangladeshi national, Saudi media said.
Shrapnel also smashed into nearby cars and shops.
The cross-border attack is just the latest in Yemen's long-running civil war by the Shiite Houthi rebels following an escalation of Saudi-led military coalition airstrikes on the rebel-held capital of Sanaa. Saudi airstrikes rocked Sanaa earlier Friday, hitting a military camp near the city center, Houthi and Saudi media reported.
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Yemen's war erupted in 2014 when the Iran-backed Houthis seized Sanaa and much of the country's north. Months later, the U.S.-backed Saudi-led coalition intervened to oust the Houthis and restore the internationally recognized government. The war has settled into a bloody stalemate and spawned the world's worst humanitarian disaster.
Intermittently throughout the conflict, Iran-backed Houthis have staged drone attacks and fired missiles across the border at airports, oil facilities and military installations within Saudi Arabia.
Those assaults have rarely caused substantial damage, but over the years have wounded dozens and rattled global oil markets. Within Yemen, the Saudi-led bombing campaign has drawn international criticism for hitting non-military targets like hospitals and wedding parties and devastating infrastructure in the Arab world’s most impoverished nation.
Yemen's civil war has killed some 130,000 people, including thousands of civilians.
Earlier this week the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank, reported that attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels on Saudi Arabia have more than doubled this year from last year. Based on an analysis of thousands of Houthi attacks between 2016 and 2021, it said Houthi attacks on the kingdom averaged 78 a month this year, compared to 38 a month last year.
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The cross-border assaults provide a broader view of the regional proxy war between Tehran and Riyadh. Although the regional powerhouses recently have engaged in Bagdad-brokered talks to cool down tensions, peace in Yemen remains elusive as diplomatic efforts to halt the fighting intensify.
Missing youth found dead in Kushtia
Barely six hours after he went missing, a 22-year-old youth was found dead on the banks of the Gorai River in Kushtia Sadar upazila Wednesday.
The deceased was identified as Sabuj Mondol, son of Haider Ali, a resident of the East Millpara area. He worked at a local factory.
Police recovered his body from an under-construction eco-park on the banks of the Gorai river in the Millpara area this morning.
His father said that Sabuj went to work on Tuesday morning as usual. "But he didn't return home at night," he said.
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Locals spotted his body on Wednesday morning and informed police.
"We have brecovered the body and sent it to Kushtia General Hospital for an autopsy,' said Sabbirul Alam, officer-in-charge of Kushtia Model Police Station.
There were several injury marks on his body, the OC added.
One dead, 6 injured in bus-truck collision in Rajshahi
A 45-year-old man was killed and six passengers were injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Puthia upazila of Rajshai on Monday night.
All the victims were occupants of the bus. The deceased was identified as Khoaj Ali, a resident of Palpara village in the upazila. He was the conductor of the ill-fated bus.
The injured are currently being treated at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH).
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The accident occurred around 7.30pm near the Bhoruapara area on Amchattar-Belpukur Bypass Road when the Natore-bound bus crashed into the Rajshahi-bound truck coming from the opposite side.
Firefighters rushed to the spot and took the seven injured people to RMCH, where the the bus conductor was declared dead on arrival, said Saidur Rahman, a Fire Service officer.
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Writer, freedom fighter Begum Mushtari Shafi dies
Eminent litterateur and freedom fighter Begum Mushtari, also known as ‘Shaheed Jaya’ (wife of Shaheed) Begum Mushtari Shafi, passed away at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Dhaka on Monday. He was 84. Begum Mushtari was undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care Unit of the hospital for various complications, including kidney and blood infections, said her son-in-law Abdullah Zafar. Zafar said Mushtari suffered a cardiac arrest on Monday afternoon when she was on life support. She then breathed her last at 5 pm. Mushtari was brought to Dhaka from Chattogram on December 2 for her kidney-related complications and blood infections. She was then put on life support.
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Born on January 15, 1936 in West Bengal, Begum Mushtari participated in the 1952 Language Movement. Her ancestral home is in Faridpur district. In the 1960s, she founded a women organization called 'Bandhabi Sangha' in Chattogram. From this organization, she published a regular magazine, 'Bandhabi', and started a printing house called 'Meyeder Press', which were considered as remarkable activities at a time when women activists were rare in society. On April 7, 1971, when the Liberation War began, her husband doctor Mohammad Shafi and younger brother Ehsanul Haque Ansari were assassinated by the Pakistani Military. Holding that grief in her heart, Begum Mushtari worked in Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra till Bangladesh earned its victory on December 16, 1971. She preserved the memories and her experiences about the Liberation War in some of her notable books, namely 'Women of Chittagong in the War of Liberation,’ 'Letter to Jahanara Imam' and 'Swadhinata Amar Roktojhora Din'. She also wrote essays, novels, travelogues, teen stories and memoirs.
READ: National Professor Rafiqul Islam dies at 87 For her contribution to the field of Bengali literature, Bangla Academy awarded Begum Shafi a fellowship in 2016. She also received the state award 'Rokeya Padak' in literature, last year. She was an active member of the 1971 Ghatak-Dalal Nirmul Committee, and also an avid supporter and activist in the 2013 Shahbag protests at the Gonojagaran Mancha, Shahbag in the capital.
Typhoon leaves 19 dead, many homes roofless in Philippines
A powerful typhoon left at least 19 people dead, knocked down power and communications in entire provinces and wrought widespread destruction mostly in the central Philippines, officials said Saturday. A governor said her island province has been “leveled to the ground."
Typhoon Rai blew away Friday night into the South China Sea after rampaging through southern and central island provinces, where more than 300,000 people in its path were evacuated to safety in advance in a pre-emptive move officials say may have saved a lot of lives.
At its strongest, Rai packed sustained winds of 195 kilometers (121 miles) per hour and gusts of up to 270 kph (168 mph), one of the most powerful in recent years to hit the disaster-prone Southeast Asian archipelago, which lies between the Pacific Ocean and the South China Sea. The typhoon slammed into the country’s southeastern coast Thursday but the extent of casualties and destruction remained unclear two days after with entire provinces still without power and cellphone connection.
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The national police reported at least 19 dead but did not provide other details. The government’s main disaster-response agency reported a lower death toll of 12, mostly villagers hit by falling trees, because it said it had to carefully validate each death.
Officials on Dinagat Islands, one of the first provinces to be lashed by the typhoon’s ferocious winds, remained cut off Saturday due to downed power and communication lines. But its governor, Arlene Bag-ao, managed to post a statement on the province’s website to say that the province of about 180,000 “has been leveled to the ground.” She pleaded for food, water, temporary shelters, fuel, hygiene kits and medical supplies. She said only a few casualties have been reported in the capital so far because other towns remain isolated.
“We may have survived, but we cannot do the same in the coming days because of our limited capacities as an island province,” Bag-ao said, adding some of Dinagat’s hospitals could not open due to damage. “Most of our commercial and cargo vessels ... are now unsuitable for sea voyages, effectively cutting us off from the rest of the country.”
Vice Gov. Nilo Demerey managed to reach a nearby province and told DZMM radio network that at least six residents died and that “almost 95% of houses in Dinagat have no roof,” and even emergency shelters were destroyed.
“We’re currently doing repairs because even our evacuation centers were destroyed. There are no shelters, the churches, gymnasium, schools, public markets and even the capitol were all shattered,” Demerey said.
Pictures posted on Dinagat’s website show low-slung houses with roofs either blown off or damaged and surrounded by tin roof sheets and debris.
In central Bohol province, which was directly hit by the typhoon, the coast guard said its personnel on board rubber boats rescued residents who were trapped on roofs and trees, as waters rose rapidly. It released footage showing coast guard staff helping people from the roof of a house nearly engulfed by brownish floodwater to a rubber boat. They also help a villager climb down from a tree above the floodwater while another man, also wearing an orange life vest, waits for his turn.
With government contingency funds used for the coronavirus pandemic, President Rodrigo Duterte said he would look for money to help the provinces. He planned to visit the devastated region this weekend.
About 20 storms and typhoons batter the Philippines each year. The archipelago is located in the seismically active Pacific “Ring of Fire” region, making it one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries.
Father, son killed in Rajshahi road crash
A man and his son were killed when a truck hit a motorbike at Nimtala on Rajshahi-Chapainawabganj highway in Godagari upazila on Saturday night.
The deceased were identified as Abdus Salam, 60, and his son Ibrahim Hossain, 35, of Gulai village in the upazila.
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The accident occurred around 10 pm when the truck hit the stationary motorbike carrying the duo, leaving Salam dead on the spot and Ibrahim injured, said officer-in-charge of Godagari Police Station Quamrul Islam.
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Ibrahim was taken to a local hospital where doctors declared him dead around 2:45 am.