The Pigeon Express
Authorities in Bangladesh have reversed their decision to open a women-only beach after facing accusations they were pandering to hardline Islamists. On Thursday officials had opened a 150m section of Cox’s Bazar for women and children, but hours later announced they were scrapping the idea. The decision to segregate the beach was made following requests […]
At least 30 people have died and about 100 injured after a packed ferry caught fire in southern Bangladesh, local officials said. The blaze on the three-decked vessel started in mid-river near the town of Jhalakathi as it sailed from the capital Dhaka towards the Barguna town. Some of the victims drowned after jumping into […]
A Bangladesh mayor who has refused to permit a mural depicting Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s father on religious grounds has been arrested, police say. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was independent Bangladesh’s first leader and since his daughter took power in 2009, authorities have erected more than 1,000 murals and monuments to venerate him. Dozens of people […]
At least seven people were killed in an attack at a Rohingya camp in Bangladesh’s Cox Bazar on Friday, police said. A gang armed with guns and knives attacked a religious school before dawn in Cox Bazar’s Ukhiya area and killed three teachers, two volunteers and a student, police superintendent Shihab Kaiser Khan said. “A […]
A prominent Rohingya leader has been shot dead in a refugee camp in southern Bangladesh. Mohibullah, who was in his late 40s, led one of the largest of several community groups to emerge since more than 730,000 mostly Muslim Rohingya fled Myanmar amid a brutal military crackdown in August 2017. He was talking to other […]
Six militants were sentenced to death on Tuesday by a court in Bangladesh for the brutal killing of two gay rights campaigners five years ago. Xulhaz Mannan, 35, the editor of Bangladesh’s first magazine for gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) people, and actor Mahbub Rabbi Tonoy, 25, were hacked to death in Mannan’s apartment […]
At least 21 people have died and dozens remain unaccounted for after a boat packed with passengers and a sand-laden cargo ship collided in a lake in eastern Bangladesh. The boat was reportedly carrying some 60 passengers when the incident occurred on Friday on a lake in the town of Bijoynagar, local official Hayat-ud-Doula Khan said. […]
At least 17 members of a wedding party died in Bangladesh after being struck by lightning, officials said. Fourteen other people, including the groom, were injured. The bride was not with the wedding party. The party was disembarking from a boat at the riverside town of Shibganj, about 150 miles north of Dhaka while heading […]
A bus carrying illegal migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan crashed in eastern Turkey, killing at least 12 people and injuring 26 others, according to local authorities. The crash occurred on Sunday morning in Van province’s Muradiye district near the Turkish border with Iran, where the vehicle caught fire after tumbling into a ditch, Reuters […]
Bangladesh police arrested the owner of the factory where at least 52 people died in a fire late Thursday. Abul Hashem, the owner of Hashem Foods, and four of his sons were among eight people detained on Saturday. Police say they all face murder charges. Authorities said many of those who died were trapped inside […]
A factory fire in Bangladesh killed 52 people and injured 30 others, officials said. The blaze broke out on Thursday night at Hashem Food and Beverage factory in Rupganj, an industrial town near the capital Dhaka. AP reported the fire took hold because of chemicals and plastics stored inside the building. The number of dead […]
A dwarf cow received a celebrity status in Bangladesh after visitors flock to the farm where she is in Bangladesh. The 23-month-old Bhutanese cow (or Bhutti) named Rani stands 51 cm high and weighs just 28kg. Despite the national lockdown over 15,000 people have visited the Rani at her farm in Charigram, near the capital […]