Nazmush Shahadat, one of the survivors, described the conditions saying, "It was dirty, plain and simple. It was dirty in every sense you could think of. Often people would sleep on the floor. When it was too crowded some people would even sleep in the kitchen. There were dead bugs, our clothes were dirty, the toilets...you just had to use them no matter how they were. Our landlord was so greedy..."
The surviving tenants are taking landmark legal action against their landlords, Sofina Begum and Aminur Rahman, for damages citing negligence, as the landlords were convicted of multiple housing offenses after the fire. This highlights the urgent need for better regulations to protect vulnerable renters from unsafe living conditions.
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