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Woman falls off rooftop, dies
UNB, Cumilla
A housewife was killed as she fell off the rooftop of a three-storey building in Cumilla Adarsha Sadar upazila on Saturday night. The victim is Beauty Akhter, 35, wife of Shahin Alam of Dhanuakhola village in the upazila.
Shahin said Beauty fell into the boundary wall of the building from the rooftop while bringing in firewood. She was taken to hospital where doctors declared her dead, he said. Sub-inspector Mahbub Alam of Nazirabazar police outpost said they went to the spot on information.
1 held with smuggled goods
UNB, Sylhet
Detectives arrested a young man along a pickup loaded with huge cosmetics smuggled from India from Housa area in the city on Saturday. The arrestee is Mohammad Swapon, hailing from Ayimgaon village in Sunamganj. Deputy Commissioner of Sylhet Metropolitan Police (SMP) Jedan Al Musa said a team of Detective Branch of police arrested Swapon while he was bringing the consignment of cosmetics to Sylhet from Sunamganj. The seized cosmetic items include hair oil, body lotion and shampoo, he said.
