No, Chawkbazar fire won't be our 'wakeup call'

Yet another tragedy has struck Bangladesh. Suddenly, everyone has woken up to the danger of chemical factories in Old Dhaka which this daily, along with other newspapers, has been crying hoarse over for years since the Nimtoli fire claimed more than 100 lives in 2010. Suddenly, we see ministers rushing to Chawkbazar “concerned” about the menace of chemical warehouses housed in residential buildings, as if eight years wasn't enough to make these factories close shop or relocate elsewhere.