SIFAYET ULLAH

Patients with burn marks all over their bodies, screaming in pain, wrapped in bandages.

Then there were patients with severed limbs. Staring with blank eyes into the abyss that they find themselves faced with. No words in their mouths.

Many were going around -- with pictures of their loved ones who went missing -- asking everyone they came across for information.

Such was the scene at Chattogram Medical College Hospital’s (CMCH) Burn and Plastic Surgery unit yesterday, after the explosion that occurred in Sitakunda’s BM Depot.

As doctors and nurses were struggling to accommodate and treat so many patients, the cries of the injured and the families of the deceased made the environment unbearably painful to endure for any humane heart.