After the fire, toxic fumes hung over the area for several days, posing serious health risks to locals.

He is accused of negligence leading to the deaths of 16 workers in a devastating fire

Says fire that spread fast due to chemicals, garment materials was contained in time

2 die in Lalmonirhat as auto-rickshaw plunges into ditch; 2 in Faridpur in bus-auto-rickshaw collision

Once a garment worker, now an entrepreneur, Beauty had an export order ready

Experts link fire incident to years of negligence, poor compliance

Three children drowned in a pond in Rangunia of Chattogram yesterday evening.

A woman and her daughter were killed after a tourist bus, bound for Tanguar Haor, plunged into a roadside ditch near Inatnagar village, close to Pagla Bazar in Shantiganj upazila, Sunamganj, early yesterday.

Seven fire engines brought the fire under control at 12:05am today

At least 10 injured

3 victims were cousins

Passengers stepped out of bus following an earlier accident

Driver’s assistant detained

Bus involved in the accident seized

The observation came after reviewing fires at Dhaka airport, CEPZ, and Mirpur chemical depot

At least 1,16,726 people were killed and 1,65,021 injured in 67,890 road crashes between January 2014 and September this year, Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity said yesterday.

Many import consignments of the garment and pharmaceutical sectors are stuck at Dubai and Singapore airports because of the space crisis in Dhaka’s cargo village and the lack of cold room facilities for pharmaceutical raw materials after the fire incident.

Caab chief says several teams are investigating the incident to find out the exact cause

More than 30 lakh people suffer non-fatal injuries in road crashes each year

Without mandatory insurance, disasters will keep draining public funds, experts warn