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  • 14 people died in a head-on collision between a truck and a pickup van

    14 people died in a head-on collision between a truck and a pickup van

    Dhaka (IANS) | A truck and a pickup van collided head-on in Bangladesh’s Sylhet district on Wednesday. 14 people died and 12 others were injured in this accident. A senior police officer gave this information. Inspector Mohammad Abul Hussain of Sylhet’s South Surma police station told Xinhua news agency that all the dead were labourers. The incident took place around 6 am, the official said.

    According to the official, all the injured were admitted to local hospitals for treatment. Police is investigating the accident.

    Road accidents are increasing in Bangladesh mainly due to dilapidated highways, poorly maintained vehicles, violation of traffic rules by the drivers and lack of monitoring by the traffic department. That’s why the death rate is highest here.

    According to media reports, at least 328 people have been killed and 565 others injured in 304 road accidents from April 15 to April 29 during the Eid-ul-Fitr festival in Bangladesh.

    –IANS

  • Gold bars worth $2.33 million seized at Dhaka airport

    Gold bars worth $2.33 million seized at Dhaka airport

    Dhaka (IANS) | Customs officials at Dhaka’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport seized 204 gold bars worth about $2.33 million. A local official gave this information. Qazi Farid Uddin, a senior customs intelligence official, told reporters that 204 gold bars were seized from a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight, Xinhua news agency reported.

    He said the BG-122 aircraft reached Dhaka at around 11.30 am on Thursday via Chittagong from Muscat.

    According to the official, the gold bars were left in the cargo hold of the aircraft.

    Acting on a tip-off, Uddin said customs officials searched the aircraft and recovered gold bars wrapped in cloth.

    According to local officials, no one was arrested in connection with the seizure.

    –IANS

  • Bus accident in Bangladesh, 17 killed, 30 injured

    Bus accident in Bangladesh, 17 killed, 30 injured

    Dhaka: At least 17 people were killed and more than 26 others injured when a passenger bus veered off the road and fell into a ditch in Bangladesh’s central Madaripur district, nearly 63 km south of the capital Dhaka on Sunday.

    Abdullahel Baki, a local Shibchar Highway Police official, told reporters that “the passenger bus felt into a roadside ditch, leaving 14 passengers dead on the spot and about 25-26 were injured”.

    He said three of the injured died on the way to local hospitals, Xinhua news agency reported.

    The accident occurred as its driver lost control over the vehicle and plunged the bus into a ditch on an expressway at about 7:30 a.m. local time.

    Bangladesh has one of the highest fatality rates for road accidents in the world mainly due to shoddy highways, poorly maintained vehicles, violation of traffic rules by inept drivers and lack of monitoring of the traffic department.