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

Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments says issued repeated reminders, shipyard did not implement directives

Workers were inspecting a section of an LNG carrier being dismantled

At least eight people were killed in road accidents in Cox’s Bazar and Netrokona yesterday.

At least five injured in head-on collision on Netrokona-Mymensingh highway

Mahid Islam succumbed to his injuries after being rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital

At least 5 others seriously injured in head-on collision on the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway

Victims aged one, 18 months and six died in Kalmakanda and Purbadhala upazilas

Police say they are believed to have been run over by the Ruposhi Bangla Express

The collision occurred when the bus was overtaking another vehicle on Chandpur-Cumilla highway

Police say a case has been filed over the crash near Wireless Gate

Truck was parked on highway after a tyre went flat, police say

4 injured

Expatriates’ welfare minister pledges support for families

At least five people were killed and five others injured in road accidents in Bogura and Habiganj yesterday, according to reports from our correspondents.