Workers salvage cement bags from a lake and people go across it by boats after the narrow bailey bridge, with a load-bearing capacity of 15 tonnes, collapsed while a truck carrying around 47 tonnes of cement bags drove over it yesterday morning, officials said. The bridge on Barungi Beel in Bogura’s Gabtali upazila linked the flood-hit Sariakandi upazila with the rest of the district. Engineers said they will sue the truck owner and its driver. Over a couple of lakh people will suffer until a new truss bridge is constructed and open to traffic in about a week. Photo: Collected
People trying to salvage anything usable after railway authorities demolished makeshift homes built too close to the rail lines near Tejgaon station in the capital yesterday. Hundreds of homeless people were evicted during the raid. Photo:
Rashed Shumon
People preparing an empty field to set up a cattle market in the capital’s Shahjahanpur Railway Colony ahead of the Eid. The market is being set up despite experts’ call not to set up any cattle markets inside the capital as it could worsen the Covid-19 situation. Photo: Anisur Rahman
Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock imposed a 65-day ban on fishing in the Bay of Bengal between May 20 and July 23. The fishermen in Chattogram, however, continued fishing using small boats. The photo was taken in Rashmanir Ghat in Uttar Kattali of the town. Photo: Rajib Raihan
