A kite maker, a man associated with a cable TV business, two homemakers and two youths who had assembled for adda were among those who died when the under-construction building at Garden Reach collapsed close to midnight on Sunday.
At least 17 people were injured, including 13 who were still under treatment at two hospitals late on Monday. The number of deaths was nine till Monday night.
Three of the injured were undergoing treatment at SSKM Hospital and 10 others at Unipon Hospital, near the crash site at Azhar Molla Bagan.
Of the three persons admitted to SSKM, one suffered a fracture in the left femur bone, said a senior official at the hospital.
“Another person suffered spinal cord injuries. The third person has minor injuries. All three of them are conscious,” the official said. “We will be able to say more on their conditions and whether some of them would need surgery only after observing them for at least 24 hours.”
A few others with bruises and cuts were treated at the hospital and discharged.
Of the 10 persons being treated at Unipon, one had a shoulder injury. “All of them are stable and conscious,” said an official at the hospital.
A team of doctors from SSKM Hospital went to Unipon to help the doctors there who are treating the injured.
Monimoy Bandyopadhyay, the director of the Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research (SSKM Hospital), said the team included doctors from orthopaedics, general surgery, neurosurgery and emergency medicine departments.
Among the deceased, five were declared dead on arrival at SSKM and four at Unipon Hospital.
Three people from the same family — siblings Shama Begum, 44, Hasina Khatoon, 55, and Nasir Ahmed, 59 — were among the dead. Ali is associated with a cable TV business.
Mohammad Jaan, a relative, said some other members of the family had a close shave as they were in an adjacent hutment and the under-construction building did not collapse on it.
Some of them were taken to Unipon with minor injuries.
Akbar Ali, 34, one of the deceased, worked in a kite manufacturing unit. He lived in a hutment next to the five-storeyed structure.
“The building crashed into their home. My brother suffered head injuries. He was lying on the bed when the building collapsed,” said Abdul Asgar, Akbar’s brother.
“My sister-in-law was sewing. She also suffered injuries and is admitted here,” Asgar said at the SSKM Hospital morgue, where he was waiting to receive his brother’s body.
Mohammad Irfan, a resident of the area, had rushed to the site after receiving a call from a friend about the collapse. On reaching there, he found two of his friends — Mohammad Imran, 27, and Mohammad Sahiluddin, 21 — lying injured.
Imran was declared dead when he was taken to Unipon. Sahiluddin is undergoing treatment at the hospital.
Another family had three of their members hospitalised. Musarath Jahan, 35, a homemaker, was admitted to SSKM Hospital and her two children — Mohammad Rahaman, 7, and Khushi Parveen, aka Joya Khatoon, 5, — are being treated at Unipon.
