The death toll from last month’s deadly launch fire in Jhalakathi rose to 49 on Monday as another man succumbed to his injuries at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery.
Russel, 38, breathed his last at noon, said Coordinator of the institute Dr Samanta Lal Sen.
The fire broke out on the Barguna-bound launch carrying some 800 passengers from Dhaka and it engulfed the entire vessel within 10 minutes on December 24.
On December 26, Chief Inspector of the Department of Shipping Shafiqur Rahman filed a case against eight people, including four owners of the launch, under the Marine Act with the Marine Court.
