Toxic gas leak

Toxic gas leak

A special team from the Bangladesh Army and Fire Service inspects the vessel at Ferdous Steel Ship Recycling Industries in Sitakunda, Chattogram, where nine workers died after inhaling toxic gas on Friday morning. Photo: TBS

Sitakunda shipyard toxic gas leak: Death toll rises to 10 as another worker dies

Nine workers were killed and six others injured in the 14 August accident while dismantling an LNG tanker at the yard.

A special team from the Bangladesh Army and Fire Service inspects the vessel at Ferdous Steel Ship Recycling Industries in Sitakunda, Chattogram, where nine workers died after inhaling toxic gas on Friday morning. Photo: TBS

High levels of toxic hydrogen sulphide still persist at Ferdous Steel ship

Finance and Planning Minister Amir Khosru Mahmud Chowdhury visits injured workers at Chattogram Medical College Hospital after a toxic gas leak at a Sitakunda shipbreaking yard killed nine workers today (14 August). Photo: TBS

Probe body to assess whether safety failures caused Sitakunda shipbreaking deaths: Khosru

A special team from the Bangladesh Army and Fire Service inspects the vessel at Ferdous Steel Ship Recycling Industries in Sitakunda, Chattogram, where nine workers died after inhaling toxic gas on Friday morning. Photo: TBS

Nine workers killed in toxic gas leak at Sitakunda shipbreaking yard