<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">A case was filed last night, implicating 16 people including three managing directors of Seema Oxygen Plant in connection with the deaths of seven employees of the plant in a massive fire in Chattogram district’s Sitakunda upazila on Saturday.&nbsp;&nbsp;</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rokeya Begum, widow of victim Abdul Quader, filed the case against the 16 people at Sitakunda Model Police Station around 11:30 pm on Monday, Tofail Ahmed, officer-in-charge of the police station confirmed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He said the investigation into the case will be launched very soon.&nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The accused include three MDs of the oxygen plant — Mamun Uddin, Parvez Uddin Santu and Ashraf Uddin Baffi — and Manager Abdul Aleem, plant operator in-charge Samsuzzaman Shikdar, plant operators Khurshid Alam and Selim Jahan, among others.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the case statement, victim Quader, who worked at the oxygen plant for around 13 years, died due to “negligence and irresponsibility” of the accused, including the owners.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At least seven people died in the fire that erupted from an explosion in Seema Oxygen Plant in the Keshabpur industrial hub of Sikakunda on Saturday.&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Apart from this, over 50 people sustained burn injuries in the devastating fire.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, the Chattogram district administration formed a seven-member probe committee to investigate the fire and asked to submit a report within five working days. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>