Rozina Akter, who lost her right leg in a road accident in Dhaka’s Chairman Bari area on Friday night, is shifted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital from National Institute of Traumatology & Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (Nitor).

At least nine people are killed and 29 others injured after a long-haul bus crashed into a lorry on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Sonargaon of Narayanganj.

At least six people, including an Indian citizen, are killed and 22 others injured in separate road accidents in Faridpur.

Two policemen are killed as a speedy goods-laden truck hit their motorcycle in Hakimpur upazila of Dinajpur.

At least 2,297 people were killed and 5,480 injured in road accidents in the last six months, a sharp rise in the death toll compared to the same period last year, National Committee to Protect Shipping, Roads and Railways (NCPSRR), an organisation campaigning for safety in the transport sector, says in a report. Move the mouse pointer over the bars of the interactive chart to have a comparative overview.

The government is determined to bring down the death toll and number of injures in road accident by 50 percent by the year 2020, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader tells the parliament.

Three people, including a woman, are killed and five others injured in a road accident on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong.

At least seven people are killed as a passenger bus fell into a ditch on Tangail-Mymensingh Highway at Ghatail upazila in Tangail.

Six-year-old Mohammad Yusuf was holding a pair of sandals of his mother at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday, hoping she would put them on soon.