A college student met a tragic death as an intercity train hit her while walking on the rail track at Joypurhat station yesterday.

Hundreds of people blocked the Dhaka-Mawa highway in Sirajdikhan upazila of Munshiganj for an hour following a road accident that killed a woman Sunday morning.

Police rescued a kidnapped seven-year-old girl and arrested three men in this connection from Farmgate area in Dhaka around 2:00am yesterday.

Two women lost their lives in separate incidents at Kamalapur and Gandaria railway stations in the city in the last two days.

A housewife was severely injured in acid attack at village Baliadah in Tala upazila Friday night. Victim Saleha Begum, 50, is wife of late Arshad Ali.

A madrasa teacher was arrested for allegedly attempting to violate a minor girl at his mess at Sabujbagh in the city on Saturday.

Police arrested the owner of a private clinic in Chatmohor upazila of Pabna Wednesday morning in connection with the death of a pregnant woman.

Two women were killed, allegedly by their husbands, in separate incidents in the city yesterday.

An elderly woman was killed after a pickup van hit her at Banani in the city yesterday afternoon.

Two housewives were murdered allegedly by husbands in Sirajganj and Sunamganj districts for dowry on Monday.

A man killed his second wife and critically injured the first one, as both of them protested their husband’s eighth marriage, at Jointapur Upazila here on Friday.

A seven-year-old girl was violated by an unidentified man at Jodunathpur village in Sadar upazila on Thursday.

Police arrested Md Harun Ur Rashid, the prime suspect in the case for killing his newlywed wife Mousumi Akter, from Phulbari town in Dinajpur district on Tuesday evening.

A girl was killed when a wall of their mud house collapsed on her at Ramchandrapur village in Phulbari upazila of the district Tuesday evening.

A woman was killed by her relatives over a land dispute at Duboil village in Gomostapur upazila of the district on Tuesday night.