In Halishahar, Chattogram, a 3-year-old child died today after falling into an open drain — another name in a growing list of victims swallowed by the city’s carelessness. The child went missing around noon. His lifeless body was found hours later, floating beneath the city’s unchecked negligence.
This isn’t new. In just six years, at least 14 lives — many of them children — have been lost in the city’s canals and drains. In April this year, Seherish, another child, was pulled dead from Chaktai canal 14 hours after vanishing.
Firefighters arrived. Police took notes. Promises will be made again. But Chattogram’s drains remain open — and so does the cycle of death.
