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100 feared killed in roof collapse

By Staff Correspondent
Nearly 100 people were feared dead when the roof of an under-construction textile mills building at Gilarchala village of Sripur upazlla under Gazlpur district caved in Wednesday afternoon.
Rescuers of the Fire Service and Titas Gas recovered five dead and 14 injured persons Uli 11 00 pm last night. The rescue operation was continuing till filing of this report late last night.
According to the witnesses, the roof of Mita Textile Mills collapsed at about 4.30 pm immediately after a norwester lashed the area. Over 100 labourers who were working on the roof got down when the rains with gusty winds started at about 4 pm. The labourers took shelter under the roof. About 25 of them came out as the rain stopped. Moments after, the roof caved In with a loud crash trapping the rest of the labourers under It
Local people rushed the spot. They found the trapped persons shouting for help. But they were helpless because they could not reach the people trapped under the debris Heavy pillars and rods covered the labours Three units of Fire Service from Sripur. Gazlpur and Dhaka reached the spot after an hour, a heavy crane of Titas Gas also rushed there and started the rescue opera Uon.
Deiwar Hossain, one of the labourers who managed to escape the disaster told The Daily Star that he saw spark of fire near one of the pillars soon after he came out from the under-construction mills. The roof then broke down and fell on his fellow workers who were still waiting there. The construction of the roof began only two days ago. He predicted nearby 100 people were trapped under the debris
Of the recovered bodies, three were identified as Mannan. Mostafa and Sattar
The injured labourers are Nurul Huda. 23. Alauddln. 30. Abul Kashem. 25. Mokhter Ahmed. 24. Monlr Uddin. 36 and Ataur Rahman. 30 The wounded persons were sent to different hospitals of Sripur. Gazlpur and Dhaka.
The local people said that there were two graves on the site of the mills. The owner of the mills Mostaflzur Rahman started construction on the spot defying the objection from the local people, they added
Fire Service authorities re quested the army to join the rescue operation at mid-night Wednesday night.
The Deputy Commissioner of Gazlpur reached the spot after six hours of the incident occurred.
The owner of the mills, was learnt to be out of the country. But his relations visited the The Fire Service employees were being assisted by the foreign experts of the Titas Gas company. The bodies were being rescued by cutting the heavy rods with oxy-acetylene torch by the foreign experts of Titas Gas.
Hundreds of people were crammed the spot till late at night.
6 killed in Habiganj
Storm lashed Habiganj Wednesday afternoon killing at least six and rendering some 100 families homeless, officials said.
Six people died in Mfrpur union of Bahubal upazila and at Rangergaon village and SayestaganJ union in Sadar
A child was killed, over 50 inj ured and hundred of houses destroyed when norwester lashed 13 upazllas of KlshoreganJ district.
The nor'wester uprooted trees, damaged crops and snapped power lines in the district, our correspondent reports.
The nor'wester hit around 3:25 pm and lasted till 4:10 pm. The worst-hit upazilas are KlshoreganJ Sadar. KarimganJ. Bajltpur. Hossainpur, Tarail, Bhairab, Pakundia and Mltamaln.
A one-year-old child was killed when a tin roof fell on him at Mesera village of Hossainpur upazila.
The nor'wester uprooted 15 poles of Kishoreganj-Bhairab 33 KV power line, 10 poles of KishoreganJ-Pakundia 11 KV line, and five poles of Bajltpur power line. The whole area plunged Into darkness and power supply could not be restored till writing of this report.
Reports coming In from the upazilas said the roof of Hossainpur Pilot High School was blown away In the nor'wester.
Thousands of trees have been uprooted and huge tracts of boro paddy was damaged.
Kazi Nazrul Islam. DC. KlshoreganJ when contacted said he could not gather reports of damage as yet. He also could not confirm any death.
Chittagong city and its adjoining areas were hit by a nor'wester Wednesday night with a maximum speed of 96 KM per hour. Met Office sources in Chittagong said.
Cox's Bazar and coastal areas were also battered by the nor'wester. Some fishing boats were in the Bay during the storm, but no report of any casualty or damage has been re-ceived so far.
It also hit Khulna disrupting power supply in the town. DC. Khulna however, could not give details of damage or injury.
Nor’wester lashes country : 5 bodies recovered from debris of Sripur textile mills