Latest confirmations raise Bangladeshi death toll to 7

Shikha Inn is shut indefinitely as civic authorities also probe possible failures in oversight

Debashish Dutta, his wife, son and father-in-law went to India for medical treatment

Four of the identified victims were members of the same family; six injured Bangladeshis released after initial treatment

The victims are a woman and her 14-year-old granddaughter

Truck driver among dead; 16 bus passengers in critical condition

Bogura-Nagarbari highway blocked for two hours

Ferdous Steel Ship Recycling Industries was cutting the scrap vessel, MT Rasi, without a valid environmental clearance at its Sitakunda yard in Chattogram, where nine workers died from toxic gas inhalation inside the vessel on August 14.

Body recovered from pond near family home

Brought under control at 7:55pm

Four people were killed and two others injured after a pickup van overturned in the Manikchhari area of Rangamati district town early today

At least five people were killed and several others injured in separate road accidents in two districts yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.

Two children drowned in separate incidents in Atpara and Purbadhala upazilas of Netrokona yesterday.

Two others injured

Nine people were killed after inhaling toxic gas inside a scrap vessel at the shipbreaking yard yesterday

3 seriously injured

Nine workers and employees died after inhaling toxic gas inside a scrap vessel at a shipbreaking yard in Sitakunda of Chattogram yesterday morning.

“The gas was so strong that it would have killed me if I remained another 20 seconds inside the ship,” said Mohammad Selim, a worker at Ferdous Steel Ship Recycling Industries in Chattogram’s Sitakunda, where nine workers died after being exposed to toxic gas yesterday morning.

Palash Jaladas, 35, was only weeks away from becoming a father. His wife, Bhumika, is seven and a half months pregnant, and the couple had been waiting for the arrival of their first child, imagining how their lives would change once the baby came.

Selim recounts horror as toxic gas kills nine at Sitakunda shipbreaking yard