, May 25 -- There are no joyful conversations, no excitement over new clothes, no laughter of sons returning home after months away at the villages of Varsho union in Manda upazila.

Instead, grief hangs heavy in the air, with families and relatives mourning young men whose final journey ended on a highway in Tangail.

What was meant to be a joyful homecoming became a tragedy that wiped out dreams, shattered families and plunged an entire community into mourning.

Ten people from Naogaon, including nine youths from the same union in Manda, are among those who were killed in a horrific road accident on the east side of the Jamuna Bridge in Tangail early Monday after boarding a rod-laden truck to return home from Noakhali, where they used t...