Widow of Sitakunda shipbreaking victim says compensation offers only temporary security for her and two young sons

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.

Despite repeated notices from Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA), shipbreakers of the Chattogram are reportedly dismantling scrap ships and dredging sand without obtaining clearance, BIWTA authorities said

Over the past two decades, casualties have become a recurring tragedy at shipbreaking yards in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila.

Deutsche Welle paid a visit to Sitakunda, world’s largest shipbreaking yard situated in Chittagong, in an attempt to fathom the extent of the damage.

At least 15 workers were killed and more than a hundred injured in accidents at different shipbreaking yards in Chittagong this year

A worker died and another fell ill inhaling toxic gas while cleaning oil from a scrap ship at a shipbreaking yard in Sitakunda on Friday afternoon.