Families of 13 victim workers to be compensated

A coal-laden truck overturns on the labour shed of a brick kiln in Chouddagram upazila of Cumilla on Friday, leaving 13 people dead. Photo: UNB
A coal-laden truck overturns on the labour shed of a brick kiln in Chouddagram upazila of Cumilla on Friday, leaving 13 people dead. Photo: UNB

The government will provide Tk 100,000 to each families of the brick kiln workers who were killed when a coal-laden truck overturned at Chouddagram upazila, Cumilla on Friday, reports UNB.

Besides, the families of the injured will get Tk 50,000 each, said Akhterul Islam, public relations officer of the labour and employment ministry on Saturday morning.

The PRO said state minister for labour and employment Munnujan Sufian made the announcement to provide the compensation from labour welfare fund.

Thirteen brick kiln workers were killed and four others injured when the coal-laden truck overturned on a labour shed at a brick field in Chouddagram Upazila's Narayanpur early Friday.