Survivor Mohammad Altaf, talking to reporters, recounted narrowly escaping the blaze by means of a damaged window. Two of his coworkers perished, he mentioned.
“When the fire started in the front and broke the glass, our cashier and servicemen made got everyone out. But both of them died later. I went to the kitchen, broke a window and jumped to save myself,” Altaf mentioned.
Firefighters used a crane to rescue individuals from the charred constructing, the fireplace service officers mentioned.
Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence Director, Brigadier General Main Uddin, mentioned the fireplace might have originated from a gasoline leak or range.
“It was a dangerous building with gas cylinders on every floor, even on the staircases,” he instructed reporters.
Intense scrutiny of Bangladesh and the main worldwide clothes retailers that manufacture within the nation has helped stop additional disasters within the garment sector since a fireplace in 2012 and a constructing collapse in 2013 collectively killed greater than 1,200 staff.
But in different industries, primarily catering to Bangladesh’s booming home financial system and with out an equal emphasis on security, a whole lot have died in fires lately.
Fires are frequent in densely populated Dhaka, which has skilled a growth in new buildings, usually constructed with out correct security measures. Fires and explosions have occurred attributable to defective gasoline cylinders, air conditioners and dangerous electrical wiring.
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