At least eleven people have died after a two-storey tin hut collapsed into a lake at Dhaka’s Rampura.
Published : 15 Apr 2015, 05:55 PM
Police said 28 people lived in the hut that stood on bamboo poles at the side of an hyancith-filled lake at Hajiparha’s Jheelpar.
The incident happened around 3:30pm on Wednesday.
“The lower storey has been sucked in by the mud at the bottom of the lake,” said Rampura Police Inspector Md Alamgir Hossain.
Eleven bodies were recovered until 9pm, he told bdnews24.com.
Four Fire Service units were taking part in the rescue operations, said control room official Md Enayet Hossain.
bdnews24.com’s Staff Correspondent Kazi Mobarak Hossain reported from the scene that three divers of the Fire Service also joined the rescue efforts.
Rampura Police SI Abdur Rashid said bodies of two men, aged between 25 and 30, and a woman were recovered around 4:45pm.
Doctors at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital declared dead Nizam Khan, 45, and ‘Mizan’, 35, when they were taken there, Inspector Mozammel Haque said.
Deceased Nizam’s son ‘Sabuj’ said they lived on the ground floor of the shack.
A neighbour took his father to the hospital, he said.
Fire Service officials rescued a number of survivors and sent them to hospital.
Authorities believe the death toll may rise, as many others are still feared trapped under the rubble.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina offered her sympathies over the casualties, according to her office’s media wing.