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Bangladesh: Six dead in plastic factory fire
A firefighter fights the fire at the plastic factory in Dhaka. photo
© Sultan Mahmud Mukut/SOPA/ZUMA/dpa
Another fire has broken out in a factory in Bangladesh, this time in the capital Dhaka. Toys were made in the plastic factory, among other things.
At least six people have died in a fire in a three-storey building housing a small plastics factory and a restaurant in Bangladesh. The fire broke out in the building in the capital Dhaka, said a fire department spokesman for the German Press Agency. The bodies were completely charred.
Toys were made in the plastic factory, among other things. It was initially unclear how the fire started.
Fires and industrial accidents with fatalities and injuries are more frequent in the South Asian country. At least 49 people died in June in a fire at a container depot in the east of the country. In 2021, nearly 40 people died when a fire broke out on a passenger ferry in December. A fire at a food factory in Dhaka in July of the same year killed 52 people.
The collapse of the “Rana Plaza” building with textile factories and shops in a suburb of Dhaka in April 2013 also triggered international dismay – at that time more than 1,100 people died.