Six Bangladeshi policemen working in the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti remained missing since a 7.0-magnitude quake hit the Caribbean country on Wednesday, said a senior police officer. Another policeman, who works at the United Nations mission headquarters in Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, survived with minor injuries.
Even after eight months into the carnage inside the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) Headquarters at Peelkhana, a total of 21 border guards who took part in the massacre directly are still at large and over 100 firearms yet missing from the border guards' headquarters.
Across this coastal provincial capital, hardest hit by the latest earthquake to devastate Indonesia, mourners, survivors and rescue workers alike clawed through heaps of concrete in searches for thousands still missing.
Former President HM Ershad's son, Arman Ershad alias Alam, 14, remains missing for nearly a month, said Jatiya Party presidium member HM Golam Reza.
The chief election commissioner today said the provisional registration of political parties will be cancelled if they failed to submit permanent constitution within the rescheduled Jan 25 deadline.
At least 50 fishing trawlers and dozens of fishermen were missing, said locals, as a storm buffeted the Teknaf coast in Cox's Bazar on Tuesday.
In a sudden u-turn over the missing figure in the tidal surge triggered by Cyclone Aila, a food ministry official today said 1,123 people remain missing in Bagerhat and Bhola districts.
Unofficial death counts from cyclone 'Aila' that pounded the southwestern coastline on Monday has reached 130 until 9:45pm on Tuesday. Local administrations say the figure may rise as over 100 people are missing.
Two months after the BDR carnage, the authorities concerned made the final tally of arms, ammunition and explosives that went missing from the Pilkhana headquarters.
Three days into the end of mutiny at BDR headquarters, rescuers could not yet trace some 50 army officers.
