Now, who’s to be held responsible for the oversight in not preventing the Bangabazar fire? The designated city corporation? Or the market authorities?

A cheap solution has been around for decades

If government officials were held responsible and accountable for every incident, things would have been corrected much earlier.

Dhaka’s unsafe buildings pose too great a risk to be left unaddressed

Mirza Azam, who was undergoing treatment at the institute with 80 percent burns, died around 9:30am, Samanta Lal Sen, chief coordinator of the hospital, told The Daily Star

After every fire and blast incidents, all fingers are pointed at the building and factory owners.

The smart thing to do in a planned smart city is to routinely intervene and monitor.

Stop treating human lives so callously

The loss of 22 lives in Tuesday’s explosion is the result of sheer greed and negligence of the building owners, police said

Violation of building and fire safety rules, lack of awareness causing frequent accidents

The body was brought out from the severely damaged building around 12:15pm

Swapan, a manager of a shop in the basement of the building, has been missing since the explosion on Tuesday, which has so far claimed 20 lives.

"We started working at 8:00am. As there was a lot of water under the building at that time, the water was irrigated and the rescue work started around 8:45am"

When ward master Riaz Uddin received the first three patients injured in the Siddikbazar explosion around 5:00pm on Tuesday, he had no idea that he was going to see over 100 more.

The recent incidents are similar to other cases seen over the years. The causes were electric short circuit, accumulation of gas in a confined space, and poorly maintained air conditioning units

There were two possible sources of the gas that got trapped, experts in police said yesterday, requesting anonymity

The two bodies were recovered from the basement of the seven-storey building

But when there is a leak and gas accumulates inside a closed space or room, it is akin to a ticking time-bomb. And when that accumulated gas comes in contact with a spark from an electric short-circuit or when someone lights a matchstick, an explosion rips through the room.

According to their primary observations, the seven-storey building is in a risky state now, and the slab of the ground floor has also collapsed

In light of previous experiences, Kamal Uddin said he has the ground to suspect it could be a case of sabotage.