The government has identified the bodies of 10 more victims who were killed in a fire at garment factory of Tazreen Fashions Ltd at Ashulia on the outskirt of the capital.
This brings the total number of the identified victims killed in the tragedy at 111, according to government statistics.
The newly identified victims are Ahenur Begum, daughter of Rahul Hannan hailed from Gaibanda, Salma, daughter of Shaheb Ali hailed from Jamalpur, Rojina, daughter of Ansar Ali from Rangpur, Aklima Begum, daughter of Hasen Ali from Kurigram, Mahfuza, daughter of Khandker Mohammad Ali from Kurigram, Rehena, mother of Shumon from Rajbari, Hena Akter, daughter of Rokeya Begum from Dhaka, Laily and Lovely, daughters of Babul Mia from Rangpur and Jonab Ali, father of Md Nahid from Kishoreganj.
Labour Ministry’s Joint Secretary Md Faizur Rahman told the Dhaka Tribune yesterday: “We have identified these 10 victims with the help of deputy commissioners and intelligence agencies.”
“The families of the victims will be compensated at the Prime Minister’s Office,” he said. The government is giving each Tazreen tragedy death victim Tk7,00,000.
Joint Secretary Faiz said: “We have written to the deputy commissioners and the intelligence agencies across the country to locate the relatives of the victims”.
At least 111 people were killed and many others injured in the Tazreen fire tragedy on November 24, 2012.
Of them, 58 victims could be identified prima facie immediately and 43 others identified through DNA test and only the 10, now identified, remained unidentified at that point in time.
Two more families had claimed that two victims each belonging to each of the two families had been killed in the tragedy, Joint Secretary Faiz added, but their claims could not be proved.