At least four workers were burnt in a gas explosion at the Jamuna Ship-breaking Yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila this morning.

The Namaz-e-Janaza of 30 victims, who died in the fire on Barguna-bound launch MV Abhijan-10, was held on the premises of Barguna Circuit House this morning.

The death toll in yesterday’s fire that broke out in the engine room of a launch on the Sugandha river near Jhalakathi Sadar upazila rose to 38 as another injured died last night in a Dhaka hospital.

Putul Begum, from Dhaka’s Madartek, boarded the MV Abhijan-10 on Thursday evening to go to her sister’s home in Barguna along with at least seven family members for a holiday trip.

Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST) has demanded a fair probe, punishment of persons responsible and compensation for victims of the deadly fire on Barguna-bound MV Abhijan-10 launch in Jhalakathi.

The engine of MV Abhijan-10 developed problems a few hours after it left Dhaka for Barguna around 6:00pm on Thursday.

A tourist drowned while two siblings went missing in the Sangu river in Bandarban’s Rowangchhari upazila this noon.

Expressing profound shock and sorrow at the loss of lives and injuries in the MV Avijan-10 launch fire, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today directed the authorities concerned to ensure quick treatment of the injured and hand over the bodies to their relatives promptly.

Ten-year-old Taifa died in the fire that broke out at the MV Abhijan-10 launch on the Sugandha River near Jhalakathi Sadar upazila early today.

A woman and her eight-year-old son who sustained burn injuries in the MV Abhijan-10 fire were admitted to Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery his afternoon.

A gas cylinder explosion in the canteen next to the engine room on the ground floor of MV Abhijan-10 is the reason for the fire, said a cabin boy of the launch.

TK 1.5 lakh will be provided to family members of each of the deceased in the fire on Barguna-bound MV Abhijan-10 launch in Jhalakathi.

Pathorghata Upazila Nirbahi Officer Hossain Mohammad Al Mujahid and his wife who were onboard the MV Abhijan-10 narrowly escaped the fire that caught the launch early today.

The Ministry of Shipping today formed a seven-member probe committee to investigate the fire on a Barguna-bound launch in Jhalakathi.

At least 37 passengers were killed after a fire broke out in the engine room of a launch on the Sugandha River near Jhalakathi Sadar upazila early today.

A surveyor died after falling from a mother vessel at the outer anchorage of Payra Port in Kalapara upazila on Wednesday night.

At least five people were killed in road crashes across the country yesterday, report our correspondents.

An HSC examinee was killed and two others were injured as a CNG-run three-wheeler carrying her fell into a river in Tangail’s Mirzapur upazila today.

An operator died during a “pneumatic test” at a cylinder manufacturing plant of Jamuna Gas in Bogura’s Shajahanpur upazila this morning.

Two youths died after an unidentified vehicle ran over their motorcycle on Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar Highway around 1:00 am today.