People and Culture
Five Killed as Passenger Bus Falls into Canal in Lakshmipur
At least five people were killed when a passenger bus plunged into a canal in Chandraganj, Lakshmipur, on Saturday morning. The accident occurred around 8:30 am in front of Kofil Uddin Degree College at Rahmatkhali canal.
The deceased were identified as Zainal Abedin (57) and Morshed Alam (40) from Sheikhpur village in Lakshmipur, and Humayun Kabir, Ripon Hossain (35), and Majed Hossain (40) from Naogaon district.
Chandraganj Police Station’s Officer-in-Charge Faizul Azim Noman confirmed the deaths, adding that divers were working to determine if anyone was still missing. The bus was recovered from the canal about four hours after the crash.
Witnesses said the Noakhali-bound bus lost control and fell into the water, causing traffic on the Lakshmipur-Dhaka regional highway to remain suspended for nearly an hour, leading to severe congestion।
A woman has given birth to quadruplets at Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) on Monday morning. The delivery took place around 10:30 am through a cesarean section, resulting in the birth of two boys and two girls.
Hospital sources confirmed that both the mother and babies are in stable condition. However, the newborns were admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) due to low birth weight. The babies weighed 1.4 kg, 1.3 kg, and two at 1.2 kg each, compared to the average healthy newborn weight of 2.8 to 2.9 kg.
The surgery was led by Dr. Taslima Begum, Associate Professor and Head of the Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Unit at CMCH. She explained that the case was a rare quadruplet pregnancy, with the mother successfully carrying all four babies despite medical complications.
This birth comes after two similar rare incidents earlier this year in Chattogram. On April 27, a mother gave birth to five babies, while on May 10, another woman delivered six babies at a private hospital in the city.
Two people were killed and at least 10 others injured in a head-on collision between two buses in Valuka, Mymensingh, on Saturday morning. The accident occurred around 8 am in the Bharadoba area, in front of Tasrif Cotton Mill.
According to the Fire Service, a Dhaka-bound Shyamoli Bangla Paribahan bus was driving against traffic due to ongoing road repairs when it collided with a Mymensingh-bound Ayan Paribahan bus.
Rescue workers recovered the bodies and sent the injured passengers to a local hospital for treatment.
A female lawyer was killed and two others injured in a collision between a bus and an autorickshaw at Sadar Upazila Mor in Kushtia on Tuesday morning.
The deceased was identified as lawyer Debora Khanam Sarika. Witnesses said the accident occurred around 9am when an autorickshaw suddenly entered the highway and was hit by a Shyamoli NR Paribahan bus coming from Chattogram.
Locals rushed the injured to Kushtia General Hospital, where doctors declared Sarika dead. Kushtia Model Police Station OC Mosharraf Hossain confirmed that three people were injured in the crash and the victim’s body has been sent to the hospital morgue for autopsy.
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