Chattogram Development Authority (CDA) on Tuesday started demolishing three risky buildings including one that tilted at Majhirghat in Sadarghat area of the port city on Monday night. CDA officials said a building tilted during the ongoing canal re-excavation work to end waterlogging in the port city. Read:3-storey building in Chattogram tilts Local people staged demonstrations in the area on Tuesday demanding compensation from the CDA authorities. Shahinul Islam, chief city planning officer of CDA, said “According to the CDA guidelines, a structure should be  established 15 feet off a canal and during the approval of the building the authorities concerned warned the owners of it . But the owners constructed the buildings adjacent to the canal ignoring the warning.” A notice was served on the owners before starting the re-excavation work of the canal, he said. Besides, the CDA authorities also asked them to show legal documents but they failed to show it. Read: Earthquake: 3 buildings tilt in Chattogram A building tilted towards a nearby building on Monday, triggering panic among locals. Besides, two building in the same area were identified as risky. A rescue team from Agrabad Fire Service Station managed to evacuate the residents of the building.

Commuters in the port city were caught in snarls Tuesday morning, with the authorities closing down a carriageway of the busy Bahaddarhat flyover following cracks on its pillars. The decision to suspend the movement of vehicles on the Kalurghat carriageway of the flyover was taken by Chattogram City Corporation and Chattogram Metropolitan Police on Monday night after cracks were spotted in the pillars of the ramp towards Arakan Road. Read: Flyovers, underpasses construction to remain suspended for 14 days: Quader Local councillor Esrarul Haque Esral said that the decision was taken to avoid any accident on the flyover. In addition to the police barricades, two traffic cops have been deployed to keep a tab on vehicles. Moinur Rahman, the officer-in-charge of the Chandgaon Police Station said Chattogram Development Authority (CDA) was informed about the cracks "as they're responsible for the maintenance of the flyover". "However, vehicles are plying on the Sholokbohor carriageway of the flyover." This is not the first time that cracks have been spotted on the flyover. In January 2018, a big crack appeared in one of the ramps linking the flyover. Read: Flyovers an ‘irreparable damage’: Experts In November 2012, 17 people were killed when three steel girders of the flyover collapsed during construction work in the Bahaddarhat area. Again on June 29 of that year, a 130-foot-long concrete girder collapsed in Bahaddarhat. To reduce traffic in the city, the Chattogram Development Authority (CDA) took the initiative to build MA Mannan flyover from the city's toll plaza to Bahaddarhat, an area of one kilometre. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina laid the foundation stone in January 2010. Later, the Bangladesh Army was entrusted with the responsibility of supervising its construction work. Hasina inaugurated the flyover on 12 October, 2013.