BNP on Wednesday demanded adequate compensation for the traders and employees affected by the massive fire that destroyed  the Bangabazar market on Tuesday. BNP standing committee member Mirza Abbas made the demand while talking to reporters after visiting the fire-ravaged Bangabazar. "The businessmen have lost lakhs of takas in the devastating fire. The government has announced to provide each of the affected traders with only Tk15,000. It is absolutely inadequate,” he said. The BNP leader said there are shop employees alongside the affected traders who also should be given the compensation. “We think this compensation for the victim should be adequate. Besides, the employees of the gutted shops should also be given the compensation accordingly,” he observed.   Abbas, a former mayor of undivided Dhaka, said he has got shocked seeing the trail of devastation of the fire. “All the shops were burnt to ashes. How can traders overcome this loss?” Expressing their party’s sympathy to the affected businessmen and shopkeepers, he said BNP will also provide the affected people with financial assistance as much as possible. “We’ll stand by them (affected traders and employees).” Read more: Govt to assist Bangabazar businesses to recover from fire damages: PM Hasina Abbas along with BNP south city unit convener Abdus Salam, member secretary Rafiqul Alam Mojnu and member Ishraque Hossain went to the fire-hit   Bangabazar market around 12:15amand talked to the victims. A massive fire broke out at the Bangabazar Shopping Complex in Dhaka on Tuesday morning and it spread to some other nearby markets, burning over 4,000 shops, mainly readymade garment and footwear stores, to ashes.

The government on Friday announced Tk 1.5 lakh to be provided to the family of each deceased in the fire on the ‘Avijan-10’ launch. Besides, the arrangement of the treatment for injured will be ensured, State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury said this while visiting the gutted launch at Jhalokathi on  Friday. Read: Jhalakathi launch fire: PM orders prompt, proper treatment of injured This financial assistance will be provided from the Shipping Ministry and Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA), said the Deputy Director of Public Relations of BITWA. Earlier, the state minister visited the injured in the launch fire at Jhalokathi Hospital and inquired about their treatment. On his way from Dhaka to Jhalokathi,  minister went to visit the injured in the launch fire at Sher-e-Bangla Medical College and Hospital in Barishal at noon. Meanwhile, the Shipping Ministry and Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority have formed two separate committees to probe the fire. The ministry panel has been asked to submit its report within three days. Read: Govt forms panel to probe launch fire, report in 3 days At least 39 people were charred to death and 72 others injured in a major fire that ripped through a launch carrying some 800 passengers from Dhaka to Barguna in the early hours of Friday. The blaze  on board the three-storey Avijan-10 in the middle of the Sugandha River off the coast of Jhalokati district's Sadar upazila, 250kms south of Dhaka, around 3am. Within five to 10 minutes, the flames engulfed the vessel.

The Appellate Division of Supreme Court on Sunday stayed a High Court order that had directed the authorities of United Hospital to pay Tk 30 lakh each to the families of four out of five victims killed in a fire at the hospital on May 27, 2020.

Five members of a family injured in a fire in Chattogram City’s Uttar Kattoli were sent to Dhaka for better treatment on Monday afternoon.

The Appellate Division on Thursday extended the stay order on a High Court directive that had asked to pay Tk 30 lakh to each of the families of four out of five victims killed in a fire at United Hospital in the capital on May 27.