FM Mizanur Rahaman

“The gas was so strong that it would have killed me if I remained another 20 seconds inside the ship,” said Mohammad Selim, a worker at Ferdous Steel Ship Recycling Industries in Chattogram’s Sitakunda, where nine workers died after being exposed to toxic gas yesterday morning.

Selim recounts horror as toxic gas kills nine at Sitakunda shipbreaking yard

Caller threatened the homeowner’s family and allegedly mentioned fugitive criminal Boro Sazzad

A criminal network allegedly run by a fugitive top criminal has tightened its grip on Chattogram city and several neighbouring upazilas, with businesses facing escalating extortion demands and armed attacks if they refuse to pay, police and locals say.

Mobarak Hossain alias David Emon, an alleged close associate of Chattogram’s fugitive gangster Sazzad Ali alias Boro Sazzad, had allegedly struck a deal to cross into India in exchange for Rs 20,000 (around Tk 26,000).

Police say he travelled towards the border with three associates after arranging an illegal crossing for Rs 20,000

Investigation report recommends discharging 26 accused, including several former senior police officials, citing lack of evidence

An internet service provider’s office was vandalised and looted yesterday after its owner allegedly refused to pay Tk 2 crore in extortion in Chattogram city’s Bakalia Access Road area.