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At least 31 people have been killed in the crash of a Bangladesh air force jet into a private school campus in Dhaka. It is the deadliest airplane crash in the Bangladeshi capital in recent memory.
Landing in Dhaka by air, looking down at the city from the plane window, your first impression is likely to be that you are ...
The government had earlier imposed a curfew with some exceptions in Dhaka and elsewhere. Protesters block the Dhanmondi 2 area during a protest in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 4, 2024.
Two people, including a local Jamaat-e-Islami leader, were killed and at least 10 others injured when a bus carrying ...
Fire and building safety can often be shoddy in Bangladesh. It was home to one of the world's deadliest industrial disasters, the 2013 Rana Plaza factory collapse, which killed more than 1,100 people.
Fires are common in Bangladesh. Last month, a fire in the oldest part of Dhaka, a 400-year-old area cramped with apartments, shops and warehouses, left at least 67 people dead. In 2012, a fire ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of supporters of Bangladesh’s largest Islamist party rallied in the capital on Saturday to show their strength before an election expected next year, ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh — A six-story shopping mall that caught fire in the Bangladeshi capital had no fire exits, the country's prime minister said Friday, as the death toll climbed to at least 46 ...
At least 31 people have been killed in the crash of a Bangladesh air force jet into a private school campus in Dhaka. It is the deadliest airplane crash in the Bangladeshi capital in recent memory.