Road crash kills mother, son
OUR CORRESPONDENT, Nilphamari

A woman and her minor son were killed and her husband injured after a truck hit their motorcycle on Panchagarh-Tetulia highway in Doshmile area of Sadar upazila on Monday night.
The deceased were identified as Joyonti Rani, 28, wife of Sitendranath Barman, and their one-and-a-half-year old minor boy Narayan, a resident of Puthimari village in Bonogram union of Boda upazila. Md Muminul Islam, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said the truck hit the motorcycle when Sitendranath Barman along with his wife and son were returning to their village from Tetulia, leaving the mother and the son dead on the spot and Sitendranath injured. On information, police recovered the bodies from the spot. The injured was admitted at Panchagarh Adhunik Sadar Hospital.
8 fugitive Jamaat activists held
Gaibandha: Police in separate drives arrested eight fugitive Jamaat-Shibir men in connection with murder and sabotage cases, from Sundarganj and Palashbari upazilas on Monday night, reports BSS.
Sundarganj Police Station sources said that a team of police conducted drives in different areas of the upazila at night and arrested seven fugitives. Meanwhile, a team of Palashbari Police Station conducted drives in different areas of the upazila and arrested another fugitive Jamaat activist. Police informed that the eight Jamaat activists have been in hiding for long to avoid arrest.
3 bodies recoved in Tangail
Tangail: Police recovered the bodies of three women, all of whom likely had unnatural deaths, from different locations of Sakhipur, Mirjapur and Bhuapur upazilas of the district on Monday, reports UNB.
Informed by locals Monday morning, police recovered the body of RMG worker Majeda, 23, daughter of Marfat Khan of Jagatpura village of the upazila, from beside the banks of the Jamuna as it flows through the village, said officer-in-charge of Bhuapur Police Station AKM Kawser Chowdhury.
Some 11 days after she allegedly went missing, police around noon today also recovered the decomposed body of Rahima Begum, 45, wife of Liakat Ali, from a well at their home in Satiachara village of Mirjapur, said officer-in-charge of Mirjapur police Station Moin Uddin.In Sakhipur, from a pond in the village of Kachua, a team of police recovered the body of Sharbanu Begum, 55, wife of late Mafiz Uddin, said officer-in-charge of the upazila police station Maksudul Alam. At this early stage, it would seem all three of the women died unnatural deaths, with suicide also in the picture. There is nothing as yet to suggest however that their deaths were necessarily connected in any way, except for having occurred in Tangail.