At least 418 children were killed in road crashes in first six months of this year as road safety situation still remain alarming, Road Safety Foundation said yesterday.

Hasan Mirdha Akash is losing hope of getting justice.

A month before the devastating fire at Hashem Foods Limited in Narayanganj, the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments visited the facility.

Two months ago, her husband fractured his leg in an accident on his way home from Dhaka to Rupganj.

At least 418 children were killed in road crashes in the first six months of this year, Road Safety Foundation said today.

A man died after a boiler exploded at a manual husking mill in Dinajpur’s Ghoraghat upazila. 

At least three people, including two women, were killed and three others were critically injured in a road accident in Lama upazila of Bandarban today.

The fire that killed 51 employees of a food processing factory in Narayanganj was not a bolt from the blue for the owners who, according to police, knew such a disaster was imminent but chose to do nothing.

At least 16 children are missing -- and possibly dead -- in the fire at Hashem Foods Ltd. All of them were working at the factory.  

A tragedy unfolded last Thursday at the five-storey Hashem Foods Ltd. factory in Rupganj. The fire that has thus far claimed 52 innocent victims, most of them (pending the difficult postmortem) aged between 12-15 years, is a chronic tale of corporate greed.

The air was heavy with the stench of death. The smell of burnt plastic, packaging papers, and other factory materials was still lingering.

Hardly any improvement in workplace safety has taken place at the non-garment factories over the years as the authorities were primarily bogged down in fixing the loopholes in the apparel industry.

The recent fire incident in the six-storied building of the food processing factory of Sajeeb group in Narayanganj caused the reported death of fifty-two people with dozens of workers still missing.

A lighter vessel carrying 1,000 tonnes of yellow peas capsized in the Bay of Bengal this morning after being hit by a sunken bulkhead near Bhasan Char.

Workers injured in the fire at Hashem Foods factory in Narayanganj have been given financial assistance for treatment by the Bangladesh Workers ‘Welfare Foundation Fund under the Ministry of Labour and Employment.

Two siblings drowned in a pond at a remote area in Khagrachhari’s Manikchhari upazila today.

The Rupganj incident illustrates the importance of taking adequate fire safety measures while constructing buildings in Bangladesh, the International Labour Organisation (ILO) said in a statement today.

At least eight persons, including owner of Hashem Foods factory in Narayanganj, were arrested in connection with the devastating fire that left at least 51 dead.

Another injured, who suffered burns in yesterday’s fire at a house in Dhaka's Kamrangirchar, died at a Dhaka hospital this morning.

Rows of bodies of the victims of Thursday night’s fire in Narayanganj are lined up on the floor of Dhaka Medical College mortuary, which doesn’t have room or freezing capacity for this many bodies.