Tag: Jhalkathi Fire

Probe blames owners, drivers for deadly launch fire

- Times Report -

The Shipping Ministry investigation committee formed to probe into the deadly fire on the launch MV Obhijan 10 midriver in Jhalakathi has placed the blame on the four owners, master and drivers of the vessel for the incident that has claimed at least 49 lives so far. In its probe report

MV Abhijan-10 kept moving for 40 minutes after catching fire

- Times Report -

Such a grave tragedy might have been avoided if MV Abhijan-10 had rushed to shore immediately upon detection of a fire. In that case everyone could have survived. That is the view of those who did survive yesterday's inferno on the vessel The launch crossed the Barishal port at 2 am.

39 killed as fire rips through launch off Jhalokati coast

- Times Report -

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 broke out on board the three-storey Avijan-10 in the middle of the Sugandha River