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).

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.

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

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.

Fourteen people, who sustained burn injuries in the fire and subsequent explosions at BM Container Depot in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram last night, were brought to Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in the capital Dhaka today (June 5, 2022) for better treatment.

The Ministry of Labour and Employment will provide Tk 2 lakh to each family of the people who died in in the fire and subsequent explosions at BM Container Depot in Sitakunda upazila last night, Mominur Rahman, deputy commissioner of Chattogram, had said.

BM Container Depot officials have expressed their condolences to the families of those killed and injured in the fire incident in Chattogram's Sitakunda.

“We were all together after the fire broke out at the container depot. Nayan was the first to go on Facebook live – providing updates on the fire. At one point there was a huge explosion, triggered by the fire. Nayan went silent and the screen went dark,” recalled Ariful Islam, a friend of Oliur Rahman Nayan.

Md Rasel has been looking for his elder brother at Chittagong Medical College Hospital, holding a photo of him in hand.