A woman was seen running around Chittagong Medical College Hospital – holding her 3-year-old daughter in one hand and her 8-year-old son in the other – looking for her husband.
Sitakunda fire once again exposes the severe negligence in the handling of hazardous chemicals in Bangladesh. As dawn broke on the morning of June 5, 2022, the areas surrounding BM Container Depot Ltd resembled nothing short of a war zone.
Fire Service and Civil Defence has formed a seven-member committee to find out the cause behind the fire at BM container depot in Sitakunda of Chittagong.
Explosives Dept not informed fire service: The Explosives Department of Chattogram was not informed and no license was taken to store Hydrogen Peroxide at BM Container Depot where an explosion followed by fire last night claimed 19 lives and injured around four hundred people.