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A massive blaze tore through a factory killing at least 52 people trapped by flames that forced many workers to leap for their lives from upper floors, police said on 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 flat buildings.
In February 2019, at least 70 people died when an inferno ripped through Dhaka flats where chemicals were illegally stored.
The latest fire broke out at Hashem Food and Beverage factory in Rupganj, an industrial town outside Dhaka, on Thursday afternoon and was still raging almost 24 hours later.
Some of the more than 30 people injured jumped from the upper floors as flames quickly engulfed the six-storey building, police inspector Sheikh Kabirul Islam said.
“On the third floor, gates on both stairwells were closed. Other colleagues are saying there were 48 people inside.
