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

Roundup: Bangladeshi army deployed as container depot fire kills at least 45-

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 within 40 minutes of the raging fire, there was a massive explosion and the blaze spread from one contain...