An eight-storey under-construction building at Kanthalbagan in Dhaka tilted towards a bordering building after two of its floors had subsided on Sunday night.
Spot accounts said the building, Haider Cottage, on the Free School Street, started subsiding about 10:00pm with a big noise and it tilted towards the bordering 20-storey Nasir Tower about 11:00pm.
Fire Service and Civil Defence assistant director Manir Hossain, who went to the place, told New Age that cracks had developed in the fourth floor of the Nasir Tower, ‘probably caused by the tilted building.’
Fire service officer Shafiqul Islam said two floors of the eight-storey building had subsided but none was injured as the workers left the building immediately after it had started subsiding.
A tin-shed house collapsed because of the tilting of Haider Cottage. The people living in the tin-shed house, however, could escape unhurt.
Fire fighters asked the residents of houses bordering Haider Cottage to leave as the eight-storey building might collapse.
Residents of the houses rushed out on the street fearing that their places might get damaged.
Local people said the Asian Developers had started the building construction in December 2008 by filling a pond with dirt and the piling had not been done properly.
The fire service assistant director said faulty construction might have caused the subsidence.
Babul Hossain, who had bought a flat in the building, told New Age on location that all the flats had been sold out and the developers were scheduled to start handover in December. He said he had bought the flat by selling all he had.
