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At least nine people were killed and several injured after a Fire Consumed a textile factory and a chemical warehouse in bangladeshCapital Dhaka on Tuesday.
Fire official Talha bin Jashim said nine bodies were recovered from the first and second floors of two buildings in the Mirpur area.
“We suspect that all of them died due to poisonous gas,” he said. The death toll may rise as firefighters are still searching the garment factory.
The official said the fire broke out around 11.45 am local time and 12 fire units were deployed to control the fire. He said that the cause of the fire could not be immediately known.
The fire service and civil defense department said the fire broke out on the third floor of a seven-storey garment factory in Mirpur before spreading to a warehouse of bleaching powder, plastic and hydrogen peroxide.
Mr Jashim said they had “almost extinguished the fire” at the factory, “but the fire in the chemical warehouse has not yet been completely brought under control”.
The injured, including three people with serious burns, were admitted to the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka.
Bangladesh has the world’s second largest textile industry after China, and the sector employs approximately 4 million workers, mostly women.
The industry, which earns the South Asian country about £30bn a year mainly from exports to the US and Europe, has a history of industrial accidents and fires, blamed on lax monitoring and building code violations.