Labourers were felling trees that used to line the roads in parts of Sector-1 and Sector-3. Several yards where trees stood on Road 7 to Road 13 of Sector-1 are now bare. It's normal to cut them once they grow," Ward Councillor Afsar Uddin told bdnews24.com on Wednesday. Uttara Residential Project is part of the Dhaka North City Corporation's Zone-1, whose executive official Khalid Ahmed said his office was unaware of any tree-felling project. "I don’t know anything about a plan to cut trees in Uttara.

Source: bd News24 October 11, 2017 19:07 UTC