At least 15 people have died after a head-on train crash in Bangladesh. The crash, between a passenger train and a freight train, happened in the city of Bhairab - about 50 miles (80km) northeast of the capital Dhaka. Local…
A tropical storm that lashed Bangladesh has left at least 24 people dead and about eight million without power across the delta nation. The government said about 10,000 homes were damaged and more than 6,000 hectares of crops were destroyed…
Rohima Begum was cooking breakfast last week when the floodwaters flowed into her tin-and-bamboo home and began racing across the floor. Ms. Begum, her three children and her mother made a quick escape in a small boat. When they looked…
Bangladesh authorities accused a container depot operator Monday of not telling firefighters about a chemical stockpile before it exploded with devastating consequences, killing at least 49 people -- nine of them from the fire service. The toll from the giant…
Over two days, Krishna Bhadra had gone to his flooded house in Nagaon district’s Garmaj village several times to salvage his family’s belongings after floodwaters suddenly roared in last week. The family of four had taken refuge in a small…
A blaze has swept through a Rohingya refugee camp in southeastern Bangladesh, killing a six-year-old boy and leaving about 2,000 people homeless in the sixth fire this year to hit the world’s largest refugee camp, officials and witnesses said. The fire on…