Firefighters trying to rescue a truck that fell into the water after a bridge collapsed in Gaibandha’s Fulchhari upazila yesterday. Local government engineers said the bridge was in good condition but was damaged by overloaded trucks. Bailey bridges are usually rated at certain load capacity and trucks often use them with loads exceeding that.
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An uncle cutting the hair of his nephew at their balcony in the capital’s Tejkunipara area. Many are refraining from going to hair salons fearing they can get infected by the highly contagious coronavirus. Barbers are having hard times due to lack of customers. The photo was taken yesterday.
Photo: Prabir Das
Struck hard by the pandemic, indigenous families sell vegetables, grown through jhum cultivation, in Bilaichhari area of Rangamati Sadar upazila to make a living. They have also put up a bamboo fencing in front to them to maintain social distancing for avoiding transmission of the virus. The photo was taken recently.
Photo: Anvil Chakma
Office clerks and night guards at government primary school demonstrate in front of the primary education directorate in the capital’s Mirpur yesterday, demanding that their jobs be made permanent and their work hours fixed. The demonstrators blocked a street from Mirpur-1 to Mirpur-10 for five hours from 10:00am, disrupting movements of vehicles. Many of them were not wearing masks. Photo: Amran Hossain
