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On June 4 night, the fire broke out at BM Container Depot in the Kadamrasul area in Sitakunda Upazila in Chittagong A fire rages at the BM Inland Container Depot, a Dutch-Bangladesh joint venture, in Chittagong, 216 kilometers (134 miles) southeast of capital, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Pic/PTI At

At least 45 people were killed and hundreds of others injured as a devastating fire swept through a container facility in Chattogram district, about 242 km southeast of the capital Dhaka.

Flouting the guidelines, hazardous chemicals were kept close to containers stuffed with garment items that fed the blaze at the BM Container Depot in Chattogram's Sitakunda on Saturday, leaving at least 49 dead and over 200 wounded.

The industrial disaster is not an isolated incident but another predictable example of how big business, with government authorities turning a blind eye, violates rudimentary safety standards, sacrificing workers’ lives to maximise profits.

Saturday's fire reportedly caused a massive blast which led to several subsequent container blasts that firefighters were still trying to douse well into Sunday. The cause of the fire is, as yet, unknown.

Army team going to Ctg depot fire site to bring the fire under control

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The death toll in the fire and subsequent explosions at BM Container Depot in Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram has gone up to 32 while hundreds of people, including police and fire service personnel sustained burn injuries in the incident.

A massive fire and a series of subsequent explosions at a private chemical container depot in southeastern Bangladesh killed at least 49 people, including nine firefighters, and injured more than 450 others, officials said on Sunday, as firefighters were still struggling to put out the blaze. According to doctors, the toll could rise further as many of the injured people were

Dhaka, June 5 (IANS): A massive blaze, followed by a powerful explosion at a private container depot in Bangladesh’s Chittagong district has killed a total of 43 people, including seven firefighters, and injured some 500 others of which 10 of them were police personnel, authorities confirmed on Sunday. The devastating blaze broke out at about 10:30 pm on Saturday at the private BM Container Depot Ltd, a Netherlands-Bangladesh joint venture company, in Sitakunda. Authorities said that withi...