Dhaka’s unsafe buildings pose too great a risk to be left unaddressed

Stop treating human lives so callously

As we have seen too often, building owners’/developers’ tendency to cut corners by not accommodating fire safety.

Md Yusuf and his three brothers have no other means to earn their livelihood after they have lost all their six shops in a fire that ripped through the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) kitchen market in the capital's Gulshan-1 and gutted over 200 tin-shed shops on March 30.