This footpath along the Panthakunja Park was meant for pedestrians. However, with no other place available to live, the homeless have occupied the footpath and made it their home. With the state barely doing anything for them, they continue to live there in an inhuman condition, eventually making pedestrians suffer as well. Photo: Palash Khan
A battery-run rickshaw runs next to a bus in Tongi, Gazipur Friday, increasing the risk of accidents. Although the High Court banned such vehicles across the country in March last year, these are still seen almost everywhere, even on the highway. Photo: Firoz Ahmed
A civil defence member carries a dead child in a site hit by what activists said were airstrikes carried out by the Russian air force in the rebel-controlled area of Maaret al-Numan town in Idlib province, Syria January, yesterday. At least 70 people died in what activists said where four vacuum bombs dropped by the Russian air force in the town of Maaret al-Numan. Photo: AFP
