BANGLADESH

Two people were killed and one injured in a road accident in the city's Banani area on Saturday evening.

The accident took place on the Banani Road No. 12 around 6pm.

Sub-Inspector of the Banani Police Station Ariful Islam told bdnews24.com that a car lost control and ran over a pedestrian identified as Nazrul Islam. Two passengers of the car were seriously injured.

Islam was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) where doctor pronounced him dead.

He was a construction worker and lived at Karail slum in Banani, the police said.

The two injured passengers of the car were taken to United Hospital, where one of them succumbed to his injuries.

Police suspected that the deceased might be the car driver.

Police seized the car.

As many as 39 people were sued on Saturday in a case filed in connection with the murder of Shariatpur district unit Awami League leader Abdul Mannan Sarder.

Police have so far arrested four for their alleged involvement in the killing.

Mannan, Organising Secretary of Shariatpur municipal unit of the AL, was killed in an attack by assailants at his residence in the district town on Thursday night. The attack also left at least 15 others including his wife Farida Begum and son injured as they tried to resist the assault.

Begum lodged the murder case with the Palong Police Station accusing 39 people including Shariatpur Bus Workers Union President Faruk Chawkider and General Secretary Elim Pahar.

Officer-in-Charge of the police station Rabiul Alam told reporters that they arrested four accused for their alleged involvement in the murder.

They are Dulal Pahar, Noor Mohammad Pahar, Noor Islam Pahar and Sujon Pahar.

The slain leader's wife told reporters that some local extortionists might have commited the murder since they had been demanding money from her husband but he had refused to pay.

Tension was running high in the area on Saturday, a day after the killing. Additional policemen have been deployed in the area to prevent any unpleasant incident.

A Dhaka court on Wednesday allowed police to remand in their custody for three days for questioning the driver of the bus that allegedly killed a Dhaka University student in an accident on Tuesday.

Judge Rezaul Karim of the Metropolitan Magistrate's Court passed the order after a hearing after Officer-in-charge of Shahbagh Police Station Rupesh Chandra Baidya, who is Investigating the homicide case, produced bus driver Anwar Hossain, 40, before the court with a seven-day remand petition, General Recording Officer of the court Sub-Inspector Arshad Ali told bdnews24.com.

The court also rejected the bail petition of Anwar Hossain.

Towhid Uz Zaman, 23, a second-year undergraduate student of international relations, was critically injured when the speeding bus of Rajdhani Express hit him at Shahbagh intersection on Tuesday afternoon.

Towhid, a resident student of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Hall, was first taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Later, he was shifted to Green Life Hospital at Green Road where he succumbed to his injuries in the evening.

As the news of his death spread, the university students rushed to the scene and blocked the intersection in protest at the incident.

The rowdy students also vandalised and torched over 50 vehicles in Shahbagh, Kataban and New Market areas during the violent demonstrations. They also set fire to a police box at Shahbagh crossing.

Towhid was laid to rest at his village home in Kishoreganj district on Wednesday noon.

At least one person was killed and 11 others injured when two trucks collided head-on in the capital's Uttara area on Thursday.

Officer-in-charge of Turag Police Station, Ziaul Karim, told bdnews24.com a Mymensingh-bound truck ran straight into a sand-laden truck at Kamarpara area around 5am, killing its driver on the spot.

Police identified the deceased as Mohammad Salauddin, 35, who was on his way to Mymensingh to buy fishes.

The injured have been identified as – Milon, 16, Islam, 15, Ohab, 30, Nazmul, 18, Swapan, 35, Mangal, 25, Tariful, 13, Chunnu, 14, Samad, 20, Nuru, 20 and Shahidul, 16.

The deceased and all the injured were on board the first truck, police said.

The injured have been sent to the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital for treatment, Karim said.

The OC said they had confiscated the sand-laden truck but its driver fled the scene immediately after the accident.

Karim said the dead body had been sent to DMCH for autopsy.

At least 13 people were killed in Chittagong city and Banshkhali area in hill-slide on Tuesday due to heavy torrential rains while wall collapse and electrocution killed five more.

Relentless downpour over the past few days forced suspension of flight operations in the afternoon, and snapped rail communication with the rest of the country in the evening. Rough weather also disrupted unloading of goods at the premier port.

Weather office said until 9pm on Tuesday, 462.5 milimetres of rainfall was recorded in Chittagong, submerging almost two-thirds of the port city. Buses and cars were not operating on some roads.

The water started tracing back after around 9pm.

The Hillside

At least eight people died at two places in Khulshi, two at North Pahartoli and three more in Banshkhali area. Apart from them, two others died at the city's Ambagan and Haathazari upazila due to wall collapse.

A hillslide at Yasin Colony in Khulshi area had buried 20 houses in Chittagong. The hill is locally known as Kabarasthhan (Graveyard).

Chittagong Fire Service's Deputy Assistant Director Jasim Uddin confirmed that the landslide happened at 7:30pm on Tuesday at Akbar Shah in Khulshi burying the houses in the neighbourhood Yasin Colony.

Bodies of Shanu, 16, son of Abu Taiyab, 12-year-old Urmi, a woman named Hosna Banu and that of three others including a child were rescued late into the night. Residents believed several others could be buried under the mud but the rescuers could not be specific until the end of their operation for the day.

Rescue operation had begun immediately while troops joined police and fire service later, Jasim Uddin added. Chittagong City Mayor M Manjur Alam, Divisional Commissioner Sirajul Islam Khan and Deputy Commissioner were overseeing the rescue operation.

Rescue operation resumed on Wednesday morning.

As many as 127 people were killed in different incidents of landslide in the port city in only one month, June 2007.

The deceased in Khulshi landslide near Joyontika residential area were identified as Rabeya Begum, 60, Abdul Khaleque, 65, Ramzan Ali, 28, Kulsum Akter, 8, and Masum, 2.

A Fire Service rescuer Zahirul Islam told bdnews24.com that there were four houses at the foot of the hill. All of the residents were buried alive when the hill collapsed.

Several landslides were also reported in other parts of the hilly city as downpour continued for hours since Tuesday morning. One of the reported landslides took place near Sugandha Ekushey Hospital and the other other at Lalkhan Bazar, injuring two.

The district administration has been suggesting people living by the hillside to take shelter in safer places until the weather conditions improve. About 50 families living by hillsides of Biswacolony and Batali Hills were shifted until Tuesday afternoon.

The district administration also dismantled 20 houses.

Assistant Director of the Department of Environment Golam Mohammad Bhuiyan said families living by the hillsides in the city would be evicted gradually.

Banshkhali Police Station Officer-in-Charge Md Shahjahan Khan said three brothers died in a landslide at Jangal Shilkup in Banshkhali.

The dead are Shahidul, 12, Khorshed, 8, and Fatema, 4, all children of Md Minhazur. Locals pulled out their bodies.

Wall collapse

A child, Abul Hossain, 8, died when a wall collapsed on him at Dakkhin Ambagan on Tuesday evening.

A Chittagong Medical College Hospital police outpost constable, Mohammad Sumon Miah, told bdnews24.com that doctors declared the child dead when he was brought to the hospital.

According to Fire Service officials, boundary wall of another house collapsed at OR Nizam Road.

Hathajari Police Station Officer-in-Charge Liakot Ali said a 15-year old girl named Annie died when a wall collapsed at Khondokia Hajiparha in the afternoon.

Electrocution

Three people were electrocuted in Chandgaon residential area and at Akmal Ali Road under Bandar Police Station in the city on Tuesday.

Nurul Islam was electrocuted in his own house on Road No. 12 of Chandgaon residential area at 4pm.

Two more unidentified people were electrocuted at Akmal Ali Road under the same police station.

Officer-in-Charge of Bandar Police Station Nurul Afsar Bhuiyan told bdnews24.com that the duo died at the local Navy Hospital on being rushed there.

Cautionary Signal No. 3

The Patenga Met office has asked Chittagong, Cox's Bazar and Mongla sea ports to display cautionary signal No. 3.

There is disparity in the air pressure at the North Bay of Bengl due to the active state of the monsoon wind, it said. There are chances of stormy winds blowing over the North Bay, adjacent areas and the sea ports.

Fishing boats and trawlers in those areas have been asked to remain close to the coast until further orders.

The foreign ministry has strongly protested opening fire by India's Border Security Force (BSF) and killing of two unarmed Bangladeshi nationals recently.

Md Durul Islam (38) of Chapainawabganj received bullet wounds on May 16 as BSF personnel opened fire when he was inspecting his own maize field. He succumbed to the injuries the same day. Another Bangladeshi national, Faruk Ali, also died as a result of firing by the Indian border guards in the same area on April 14, according to a media statement of the ministry.

The ministry has requested India to conduct an inquiry into the incidents and take appropriate action against the BSF personnel responsible for such deplorable acts.

It has also called for immediate effective action to prevent recurrence of such incidents in the future.

While registering its protest over continuation of such killings by BSF, the ministry recalled the commitment of the Indian leadership to put an end to such acts of violence.

The ministry reminded that the Indian side had reiterated its assurance with respect to incidents of firing by BSF at various forums, the most recent one being at the Joint Consultative Commission meeting between Bangladesh foreign minister and external affairs minister of India on May 7-8.

Kill again,BSF don't stop their kill in bangladeshi.India's Border Security Force has killed another Bangladeshi citizen on Dinajpur border despite the Indian government's promise to stop killing along the border.

The incident occurred early on Friday morning at the district's Daudpur border in Birampur, Commander of the 40th Battalion of the Border Guard Bangladesh Lieutenant Colonel Tayebul Haque told .

The deceased has been identified as Saidur Rahman Chiku, 50 who is the son of Abdul Gafur of Birampur Upazila's Poli Mahmudpur village.

He used to rustle cattle from India, Haque said.

The BGB Commander said Saidur and his companions were on their way to India when members of BSF's Gobindapur camp threw grenade at them near pillar no. 289/25 (a).

Saidur received wounds from the grenade and fell to the ground. The BSF members then opened fire at him and killed him, he said.

The BSF has taken Saidur's body, Haque said.

The BGB Commander said they tried to communicate with their Indian counterparts to get the dead body back. "The BSF is yet to respond."

In 2011, the international human-right outfits Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International had severely criticised the Indian government for continuous killing of unarmed Bangladeshis along the border.

Human Rights Watch found numerous cases of indiscriminate use of force, arbitrary detention, torture, and killings by the security force, without adequate investigation or punishment.

The BSF chief, Raman Shrivastava, after a four-day visit to Dhaka on Sep 30 last year said his forces had introduced non-lethal weapons in many places to bring border killings down to "zero level".

According to reports, over 900 Bangladeshi nationals have been killed by the BSF over the last decade, many of them when they crossed into Indian territory for cattle rustling or other smuggling activities.