Dhaka, May 19 -- Shyamal Polli Slum Fire: Dwellers watch their dreams turn into ashes

On the night of May 18, a fire ripped through Shyamal Polli in the capital, burning down over a hundred of shanties and leaving behind nothing but smoke and sorrow.

What once stood as a tightly knit community of tin-roofed shanties and modest dreams is now a desert of twisted metal and charred memories.

Fire breaks out at commercial building in Motijheel, brought under control

UNB photographer Tahiat Nazifa Nur's photos poignantly capture the struggle of the slum dwellers to survive.

Published by HT Digital Content Services with permission from United News of Bangladesh....