If anyone is found responsible for the fire at BM Container Depot in Chattogram’s Sitakunda, they will have to face punishment, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said.

There are four containers that still contain inflammable chemicals inside the BM Container Depot in Chattogram’s Sitakunda, the army said today.

Following the fire and explosions in BM Container Depot at Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila, chemical-mixed water has been spreading in the vicinity.

Akhter Hossain (17) worked as a driver at BM Container Depot in Chattogram’s Sitakunda but since the devastating fire his family cannot find him.

At least 641 people were killed and 1,364 injured in 528 road accidents across the country in May, according to Road Safety Foundation.

A case has been filed against the unidentified driver of Safe Line Paribahan bus – involved in an accident on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar yesterday.

A police personnel died after a bus hit his motorcycle in Dhaka’s Bangla Motor area under Hatirjheel Police Station this morning.

The fire at BM Container Depot, in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram, is still not completely under control.

A team of experts of Criminal Investigation Department has started collecting DNA samples of the deceased in Chattogram container depot fire in order to identify them.

Mandatory safety measures like storing chemicals on a separate part of the premises with caution signs were not followed at BM Container Depot.

They are the ones who run towards danger when others run from it. Be it a fire, explosion, road accident, landslide, launch capsize or other natural or manmade calamities, these first responders rush to the spot selflessly.

"My husband is at least alive, even if his left hand has been amputated. It means a lot to me that he is still alive," said Nazneen Nahar, wife of Nurul Afsar, who sustained burn injuries in the fire and subsequent explosions at BM Container Depot in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram on Saturday night (June 4, 2022).

Patients with burn marks all over their bodies, screaming in pain, wrapped in bandages.

Right after the news of the deadly explosion at Sitakunda BM Depot broke, around 200 students of Chattogram University head out in two buses, in the middle of the night.

Masum Miah, assistant manager at BM Container Depot, willingly left the safety of his home on Saturday night to help guide the firefighters to battle the inferno.

Abdul Majid was scurrying from place to place to find his son since late last night.

Flouting the guidelines, hazardous chemicals were kept close to containers stuffed with garment items that fed the blaze at the BM Container Depot in Chattogram’s Sitakunda on Saturday, leaving at least 49 dead and over 200 wounded.

Four staffers of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, including a pregnant woman, were killed in a road crash on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Savar yesterday.

The charred bodies of 36 fire victims of the fire tragedy at BM Container Depot in Chattogram’s Sitakunda could not be identified by the family members, said Mominur Rahman, deputy commissioner of Chattogram.

Locals have informed that the presence of chemicals could be felt in the environment as pungent smell has overwhelmed the area around BM depot in Sitakunda of Chattogram.