Home / Sylhet

Sylhet

Hailstorms hammer Sylhet, Sunamganj

■ Electricity supply disruption in Sunamganj ■ Several people injured in the city Heavy hailstorms late on Sunday in Sylhet and Sunamganj towards the end of the Bangla month Chaitra have raised fears of significant damage to Boro and other crops. After Taraweeh prayers, at around 10:15pm, a storm passed through Sylhet city and other areas in the division, followed ...

Read More »

SI killed as private car loses control in Sunamganj

A sub-inspector (SI) of police was killed and another police man injured when a private car lost control in Sunamganj’s Shantiganj upazila on Sunday. The accident took place around 11 am on the Sylhet-Sunamganj road at Noagaon village under Purba Pagla union of Shantiganj upazila. The deceased Mohiuddin Ahmed, was an SI at Sunamganj Court. According to police and locals, ...

Read More »

Former member of parliament and heroic freedom fighter Nazir Hossain held funeral in Sunamganj. 

  Bangla Mirror Desk:   The funeral of three-time former member of parliament and heroic freedom fighter Nazir Hossain from Communist Party and BNP of Sunamganj-1 (Jamalganj, Tahirpur, Madhyanagar and Dharmapasha) constituencies was held. The funeral was held at 3:30 pm on Thursday in the old bastion area of ​​Sunamganj city. At that time, a smart team of police including ...

Read More »

Young girl found dead inside Moulvibazar forest

A young girl, who was missing since Wednesday (March 27), found dead inside a forest at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district on Friday afternoon. The victim Rekha Begum, 20, daughter of Ruhul Amin and a resident of West Singur village under Baramchal union, found hanging with a branch of a tree inside the forest at Nowabagan area under the upazila, ...

Read More »

Woman ‘commits suicide’ in Habiganj

A woman, mother of four children, reportedly committed suicide in Habiganj’s Nabiganj upazil early Thursday. The deceased was Laila Begum, 35, daughter of Manik Mia, a resident of village Chowshatpur under the upazila. Police and locals said the family members of the woman found her hanging from the ceiling of the house and informed police. On information, police recovered the ...

Read More »

Former CPB lawmaker Comrade Nazir Hossain passes away

Sunamganj Correspondent : Valiant  freedom fighter and  Former lawmaker of Sunamganj-1  Comrade Nazir  Hossain died of old age complications at his own residence here  early this morning. He was 75. The lawmaker of the left-leaning  Communist Party of Bangladesh (CPB) breathed his last at around 4.30am at his residence, confirmed by our correspondent here today. He survived by wife, a ...

Read More »

‘Dacoit leader’ beaten to death in Habiganj

A leader of a dacoit gang was killed in mass beating in Habiganj’s Lakhai upazila early Wednesday. The deceased was Hiraj Miah, 45, a resident of Sadar upazila. According to Lakhai Police Station OC Md Abul Khayer a gang of dacoits were committing robbery intercepting some vehicles on a road in Goakara village at an early hours. When villagers saw ...

Read More »

Moulvibazar electrocution: Last survivor Sonia dies too

After parents and three siblings, 10-year-old Sonia Akter, who was critically burnt in electrocution on Tuesday at their house in Moulvibazar, has also succumbed to her injuries. She breathed her last at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery around 4am on Wednesday. With Sonia, all the six family members died from electrocution. Sonia was under observation whole ...

Read More »

Child killed being crushed by truck in Sunamganj

A four-year-old child was killed after a truck crushed him at Dowarabazar upazila in Sunamganj district. The deceased was identified as Ramim, son of Amir Uddin, a resident of Mohabbatpur Bazar in the upazila. Quoting locals, police said a truck ran him over when Rahim was playing in front of his house near the road, leaving him dead on the ...

Read More »

Five of a family die from electrocution in Moulvibazar

Five members of a family, including three children, died, and another child was severely injured from electrocution in Moulvibazar’s Juri upazila in the early Tuesday. The incident happened after an electric wire fell on the tin roof of a house owned by Foizur Rahman due to heavy rain and a storm. While trying to leave the house during this time, ...

Read More »