Compensate the victims

A writ petition has sought High Court directives on the authorities concerned to compensate the victims on whom girders collapsed at the under-construction Bahaddarhat flyover in Chittagong on Saturday.
Raihanul Mustafa from Moheskhali of Cox's Bazar filed the petition, appealing to the court to order the authorities to bear the expenses for treatment of the people who were injured in the incident.
Twelve people were killed and at least 50 others injured when three concrete girders of the under-construction flyover fell on a kitchen market.
The petition also challenged the authorities' not taking safety measures at the construction site.
Earlier on January 29, a man was injured when a girder of the same flyover fell but the authorities did not take any preventive measures, Raihanul said in the petition.
Yesterday, an HC bench of Justice Mirza Hussain Haider and Justice Kazi Md Ejarul Haque Akondo fixed tomorrow for passing an order on the petition.
Advocate Soweb Uddin Khan appeared for the petitioner.