Child  electrocuted
OUR CORRESPONDENT,

Chandpur A two-year-old boy was electrocuted in Matlab North upazila of Chandpur on Wednesday. The deceased was Talha, son of Shahabuddin Mridha of Shahbajkandi village in the upazila. Family sources said Talha came in contact with live electric wire while looking behind a refrigerator at his uncle’s house for a ball he was playing with. trying was electrocuted when he was trying to bring his ball from behind the fridge of his uncle’s house. He was rushed to the local health complex, where the duty doctor declared him dead. A pall of gloom descended on the home following the death of the child. 

FF killed in road crash
Our correspondent, Mymensingh

A freedom fighter was killed and four others  were injured following a collision between a truck and CNG-run  auto-rickshaw at Shambhuganj Raghobpur on the Mymensingh-Kishoreganj  highway in sadar upazila yesterday morning. The deceased has been identified as Kutub Uddin, 62, a freedom fighter hailing from Hossainpur in the district. Md Kamrul Islam, officer-in-charge of Kotwali police station, said the accident took place when a Mymensingh-bound auto- rickshaw collided with a truck leaving Kutub Uddin, passenger of the three-wheeler, dead on the spot and four others injured.  Three of the injured were admitted to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital. Protesting the incident, local people put up a barricade on the road for an hour. On receiving the information, police rushed to the spot and brought the situation under control. Sub-inspector of Katwali police station Asim Kumar said police seized  the auto-rickshaw and the truck.

Meena club launched
OUR CORRESPONDENT, Meherpur

Meherpur Ladies Club (MLC) formed a new club titled ‘Meena Club’ for the unprivileged and disabled women in the society on Wednesday afternoon with the vision of making the poor and helpless women self-reliant. On the occasion MLC held a meeting at Meherpur circuit house with its president advocate Latifa Khanom Chowdhury, also the wife of deputy commissioner, in the chair. The chairperson in her speech said in order to make the helpless, distressed and disabled women in the society attain self-reliant 26 women have been provided with sewing machines and goats in the first phase. The MCL is doing charity from its own fund.