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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 | 1995 At least 100 die in Bangladesh when a passenger train slams into another train standing at a station in the Dinajpur district. 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 | 2008 23 were killed and 20 others injured in a truck accident on Jamuna Bridge approach road in Tangail Sadar upazila; truck was loaded with iron rod and carrying the day labourers victims on their way back to their villages to cast vote in parliamentary election. 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 Eight people were injured when an express train rammed two cars and a bus stuck in a gridlock on Moghbazar level crossing, tossing the vehicles on to two cars on the other side of the road. 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 | 2010 At least 14 people were killed and over 100 injured as two trains, Chittagong-bound intercity train Mahanagar Godhuli and Dhaka-bound local train Chattola, collided head-on at Narsingdi railway station. Google | 2010 11 killed and 40 injured in a head-on collision between two buses on the Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Chandina upazila in Comilla. 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 | 2017 A head-on collision between a bus and a microbus on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway led to the death of 13 and the injury of 28 in Narsingdi. Google | 2019 52 people are killed in road accident in a single day as people were returning from Eid Vacation. This is the country's highest reported number of casualties from a road crash in a single day in recent times. 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 | 2019 16 killed and over 70 injured as two trains Turna Nishita crashes into Udayan Express in Brahmanbaria. Google | 2019 In Brahmanbaria, Rangpur Express, bound from Dhaka to Rangpur, braced an accident at Ullapara station in Sirajganj. Seven compartments of Rangpur Express, including its engine and power car, derailed in the Ullapara Railway Station area and a fire broke out in three of its compartments. Google | 2024 A bus collides with truck before falling into a ditch in Gopalganj, killing ten people and injuring 15 others. Google |