5 Sylhet city councillors eat exotic, wild birds
Outrage as video
goes viral
Mohammad Taufiq Baksh of ward-26, who is the panel mayor; Rokibul Islam Jholok of ward-11, Eliasur Rahman of ward-8, Abdul Muhit Javed of ward-16 and Tareq Uddin Taz of ward-10 of Sylhet City Corporation. (From top left) Photos were collected from Facebook
Six people, including five councillors of Sylhet City Corporation, were seen in a Facebook Live video having the meat of wild birds at a diner in Jaintiapur upazila s Haripur Bazar area on Friday night.
A waiter and several councillors were heard saying that it was the cooked meat of white-breasted waterhen, locally known as Dahuk.
A life lost due to negligence
Sylhet poet dies after falling in drain being constructed by SCC without safety measures
Our Correspondent, Sylhet
Our Correspondent, Sylhet
Poet Abdul Basit Mohammad succumbed to injuries yesterday morning at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital, after he got hurt falling into an under-construction drain in Sylhet city s Amberkhana area on Monday evening.
The drain was being constructed by the Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) and like many other projects of SCC, no safety procedures were being followed at the site, said residents and cultural activists.
Criticising SCC for not maintaining safety protocols at under-construction sites, they said for years, almost all city roads and drains are being repaired. But while carrying out the construction works, the city authority never follows safety measures to avert possible accidents.