Bangladesh factory inferno fire kills 52
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Police dispersed hundreds of people who blocked nearby roads and clashed with officers.
RUPGANJ (AFP) - A massive blaze tore through a Bangladesh factory killing at least 52 people trapped by flames that forced many workers to leap for their lives from upper floors, police said Friday.
About 30 people were injured and hundreds of distraught relatives and other workers waited anxiously outside the food factory as the fire continued to rage.
The inferno was the latest to tarnish Bangladesh’s safety record marred by a series of disasters in industrial complexes and apartment buildings.
Un incendio en una fábrica de bebidas cerca de Daca, capital bangladesí, causa la muerte de 52 personas, un sinnúmero de heridos y desaparecidos.
Al menos 52 personas han muerto, varias han resultado heridas y se teme que una cifra indeterminada haya quedado atrapada después de que un incendio masivo arrasó una fábrica en Narayanganj, a 20 kilómetros de Daca, según ha informado este viernes el director adjunto del Servicio de Bomberos y Defensa Civil, Debashish Bardhan.
La causa del incendio, que se originó en la planta baja de un edificio de varios pisos, no se conoció de inmediato. No obstante, las autoridades han revelado que en el interior de la instalación estaban almacenados productos químicos y plásticos altamente inflamables.
Daily Times
July 10, 2021
A massive blaze that killed 52 people in a Bangladesh factory and forced workers to leap for their lives from upper floors set off angry recriminations Friday over the country’s industrial safety record.
About 30 other people were injured in the fire, and hundreds of distraught and angry relatives clashed with police on a highway outside the food factory even as the building continued to burn. The inferno was the latest to tarnish Bangladesh’s safety record, which has been marred by a series of disasters in factories and apartment buildings.
The country pledged reforms after the Rana Plaza disaster in 2013 when a nine-storey complex collapsed killing more than 1,100 people.