Our Correspondent
Two sisters drowned in a waterbody in Kolkotkha village in Jamalganj upazila on Sunday morning.
The deceased were identified as Rahima Khatun, 5 and Muslima Khatun, 4, daughters of Suruj Ali of the village.
Saiful Islam, officer-in-charge of Jamalganj Police Station, said that the two sisters went to a haor with a net for fishing without informing their parents and drowned in the water around 11:30am.
Later, family members recovered the bodies from the haor, said the OC.
Forest office, other establishments gutted in Rangamati fire
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At least 70 establishments, including the forest office, were gutted as a fire broke out at Sublang bazar in Barkal upazila on Sunday.
The fire broke at around 4 pm and spread fast, witnesses said.
Members of police, local army camp, three units of Fire Service and Civil Defence from Rangamati sadar upaizla and locals doused the flame after one and half an hour frantic efforts, locals said.
The origin of the fire could not be detected immediately, said local control room of Fire Service.
No casualty was reported.
Four Covid-19 patients leave Thakurgaon to attend jobs in Dhaka, Rangpur
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District Health Directorate on Sunday said four coronavirus patients left their homes in Thakurgaon to join their work places in Dhaka and Rangpur.
Sources at District Health Directorate said four people, a 45-year-old man from Sadar Upazila’s Gobindapur area, and three youths from Haripur upazila, tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday. The local health authorities found none of them at home as three among them went to Dhaka and one to Rangpur to attend their respective jobs, sources said quoting family members on Sunday. The samples were collected from the infected people on June 4, and report came on June 13, the sources added. Thakurgaon Civil Surgeon Dr Md Mahfuzar Rahman said so far 159 people were infected in the district while two of them died from Covid-19.
The samples of 47 people were also sent for coronavirus testing, he added. Bangladesh on Saturday reported the record new coronavirus cases (3,471) and record deaths (46) in the span of 24 hours until Saturday morning.
The country has so far reported 84,379 coronavirus cases and 1,139 deaths.
3 members of a family killed in Rajbari road crash
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Three members of a family were killed and three others injured when a truck hit a private car on Dhaka-Khulna Highway at Khankhanapur in Sadar upazila on Sunday.
The deceased were identified as Shuvro Mandal, 33, Lizan Biswas, 6, Shyamol Mandal, 35, of Ballavpur village in Mujibnagar upazila of Meherpur district. Police said the accident took place around 10:30am when the truck hit the private car carrying six people while heading towards Dhaka, leaving three killed on the spot and three others injured. The injured were taken to Goalanda Upazila Health Complex.
