Some of the visiting nine-member team of foreign doctors and paramedics operate on Sakil, a 13-year-old boy who suffered burns in a house fire five years ago, in Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday. Put together by FOR-Bangladesh Association, Germany; and not-for-profit organisation Interplast of Germany, Hungary, and the Netherlands, the team selected five burn victims of recent arson to provide treatment and perform plastic surgery for free. Photo: Star
Within months of being demolished by the district administration and police, shops return encroaching on the side of the road in Kalurghat BSCIC Industrial Area in Chittagong city and in some places by chopping down trees. A shopkeeper said he bought one structure for Tk 20,000 from influential locals who are being 'assisted' by police. The Chandgaon Police Station officer-in-charge denied the allegation, saying if directed they would again conduct demolition drives. The photo was taken on Saturday. Photo: Anurup Kanti Das
