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1972 The collision of two trains in Jessore, Bangladesh, kills 76 people. This disaster resulted from one simple error by a train-station operator. Google | 1989 At least 135 killed, over 1,000 injured when two packed express trains crash head-on 24 kms (15 miles) from Dhaka. Google | 2001 19 people died and 69 injured in different road accidents at Tangail, Rajsahi, Gopalgonj, Noagaaon, Monsigonj, Avoynagar, Savar and Noakhali during the last three days of Eid holiday. Google | 2001 Eight people died when a truck and a microbus made head to head collision at Chandina of Dhaka-Chittagong highway. Google | 2001 Seven person died and twenty other injured when a bus fell into a ditch after losing its control of the wheel of a minibus at Dhleswar of Kalihati at eastern part of Bangobundhu bridge. Google | 2001 Eight people died and 3 injured under a truck at Bottala of Tarakanda of Mymensing-Fulpur highway. The four person died are from one family. Google | 2005 A total of 20 people were killed as a bus fell into the Pouli river breaking the railings of the Pouli bridge in Kalihati upazila. Google | 2005 At least 17 people were killed and 33 injured when a speeding bus trying to overtake a truck skidded off the road and crashed into a ditch in Tangail district.
Google | 2006 In western Bangladesh dozens of people were feared to have drowned when a bus packed with about 50 wedding guests plunged into a river. Google | 2006 32 passengers of a bus were killed and 30 others were injured when a train rammed into the bus standing on a level crossing due to engine failure at Akkelpur in Joypurhat. Google | 2007 The rear carriages of the Probhati Express derailed near Dhaka. Four people died and fifty were injured. Google | 2008 A Bangladesh official said at least 17 people were killed when a train plowed through a packed bus at a railway crossing in Tangail district. Google | 2008 17 people were killed and at least 23 injured when Dhaka bound Ekota Express, a train, coming from Dinajpur rammed into a passenger bus at a Balla rail crossing in Kalihati upazila of Tangail. Google | 2008 18 persons killed and 55 injured when a passenger bus skidded off the road and fell on the railway on Jamuna Bridge approach road in Kalihati upazila of Tangail. Google | 2008 At least 11 people died and 40 others were injured after a bus and truck had a head-on collision in Sherpur on the Dhaka-Bogra highway. Google | 2008 At least 20 people died and 32 others injured in a road crash involving two buses colliding head-on on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Daudkandi upazila of Comilla. Google | 2009 At least 11 people were killed and 50 injured as two buses collided head-on on Khulna-Mawa highway in Mollarhat upazila. Google | 2009 At least 16 people were killed and 20 others injured after a Natore-bound bus collided head-on with a truck coming to Dhaka from Natore on the Dhaka-Bogra Highway in Kamarkhand upazila of Sirajganj. Google | 2009 Two express trains collided head-on due to wrong signal, leaving one dead and six others injured just outside Kamalapur Railway Station. Google | 2009 13 people were killed and 15 others injured in a tragic road accident at Chelerghat Bagan area in Trishal upazila on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway when an over loaded truck carrying cement bags and day labourers skidded off the road and fell into a ditch. Google | 2009 At least 14 people, including two women and a minor girl, were killed and 10 others injured when a bus fell into a ditch after hitting a roadside tree near Feni town on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway. Google | 2010 In eastern Bangladesh a speeding bus plunged off a bridge after slamming into another bus, killing 11 people and injuring 32 others. Google | 2010 A speeding train plowed into two buses at a busy crossing in Dhaka, killing at least seven people and injuring dozens. Google | 2011 A passenger bus collided head on with a lorry at Shajahanpur in Bogra district, 100 miles (160km) north of the capital, killing at least 17 people and injuring more than 30 others. Google | 2013 A bus carrying pilgrims to beach resort town of Cox's Bazaar plunged into a dried up river, killing at least 17 people and injuring another 26.
Google | 2013 About 30 people were feared drowned after an overcrowded bus plunged into a deep river in Barisal. Google | 2014 A major freight train accident occurred near Faujdarhat Railway Station. A freight train from Patenga was carrying furnace oil to a power plant, but near Faujdarhat the train derailed and leaked around 96,630 l or 25,526 US gal of furnace oil. Six wagons of the train derailed and oil from three of the wagons flowed into a nearby canal. Google | 2014 Two passenger buses collided head-on, killing at least 20 people and injuring 25 others in Baraigram, 200 kilometres (125 miles) west of Dhaka. Google | 2019 At least 16 passengers died and score other injured as Dhaka-bound Turna Nishita Express rammed Chattogram-bound Udayan Express from Sylhet at Mandobagh Railway Station in Kasba. Google |