At least seven people are dead and another 150 are missing after a ferry sank in Bangladesh. So far, 35 survivors have been found.
As a teenager, Babul Miah was sent to prison for a murder he says he never committed but the promise of an early release turned him into a hangman.
The Bangladesh military on Tuesday launched its own probe into a savage mutiny by troops against their officers.
Troops fanned out across Bangladesh on Monday to hunt 1 000 fugitive soldiers blamed for a revolt by border guards that left 78 dead.
At least 10 000 people have been detained over the past week in a major crackdown on crime in emergency-ruled Bangladesh, the country’s police chief said on Wednesday.
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/ 22 November 2007
As waves engulfed her home, Rahima Begum struggled desperately to keep her two-year-old son’s head above the water. Then she told her husband she could not hold on any longer. ”She was wearing a sari which made swimming difficult. She was drowning under the huge waves,” said said Khalilur Rahman Hawlader.
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/ 28 February 2006
A court sentenced 21 Islamic militants to death on Tuesday for their part in a deadly wave of blasts that saw more than 400 bombs explode almost simultaneously across Bangladesh last year. The bombings killed three people and rocked a nation which had previously denied having a serious problem with extremism.
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/ 25 February 2006
A five-storey building undergoing renovations collapsed in the Bangladeshi capital on Saturday, killing at least 16 people and injuring 45, the army said. The building housed a garment-making outlet and street-level shops. Police said many workers were inside the building at the time of the collapse but had no exact tally.
About 350 small bombs exploded within an hour of each other across Bangladesh on Wednesday, killing two people and injuring more than 100 in an unprecedented attack initially linked to banned Islamic extremists. The bombs, which killed a man and a 10-year-old boy, exploded in almost all of Bangladesh’s 64 towns and cities.
Hopes were fading on Wednesday for more than 100 people feared trapped in a collapsed Bangladesh factory as rescuers raced against the clock to reach anyone still alive in the rubble. Officials said it is possible for people trapped in voids to survive for up to four days. Twenty-eight bodies have so far been recovered.