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.

A man died after a garbage truck of Dhaka South City Corporation allegedly hit him in Wari area this morning.

Around 150 people are in shock and despair, after the buildings and tin-roofed houses they live in tilted at Chattogram city’s Majirghat area on Monday night. They have no idea about what will happen to their homes, and have now taken shelter at their neighbours’ houses.

At least five people were killed and 11 injured in accidents across the country in last two days, report our correspondents.

Three buildings and five tin-roofed houses were evacuated in Majirghat area of Chattogram yesterday hours after they tilted to one side amid the excavation work of a nearby canal.

Five people were slightly injured while trying to get out hurriedly after a fire broke out at Rangpur Medical College Hospital yesterday morning.

A fire that broke out on the third floor of Rangpur Medical College Hospital this morning has been brought under control.

A woman was killed in a fire that broke out at Akbarshah area at the port city yesterday morning.