Factbox-Deadly fires common in Bangladesh, mainly in industrial settings
(Reuters) – The lethal fireplace at a container depot in southeast Bangladesh on Saturday evening was the most recent in a string of main fireplace incidents.
Security guidelines are sometimes violated in Bangladesh, particularly in industrial settings, and fires in factories and different buildings have killed a whole bunch of individuals since 2005.
DECEMBER 2021
Not less than 38 individuals died when a fireplace swept from the engine room via a ship on the Sugandha River.
JULY 2021
Not less than 52 individuals had been killed and 20 injured after a large fireplace raged via a juice-making manufacturing facility in Narayanganj, southeast of the capital, Dhaka.
MARCH 2021
A large fireplace that ripped via a Rohingya refugee camp killed least no less than 15 individuals, injured greater than 550 individuals injured and displaced some 45,000.
SEPTEMBER 2020
A suspected gasoline pipeline explosion at a mosque simply exterior Dhaka killed 17 individuals and injured dozens as worshippers had been about to finish their prayers.
DECEMBER 2019
Not less than 10 individuals had been killed when a fireplace swept via a fan manufacturing facility close to Dhaka.
NOVEMBER 2019
Not less than seven individuals had been killed and eight injured after a gasoline pipeline exploded within the port metropolis of Chittagong.
MARCH 2019
A fireplace broke out in a 22-storey business constructing in Dhaka, killing no less than 19 individuals, injuring 70 and trapping many extra.
FEBRUARY 2019
* A fireplace that engulfed a centuries-old space of Dhaka killed no less than 70 individuals.
* A fireplace gutted greater than 200 slum homes in Chittagong, killing no less than eight individuals and injuring greater than 50.
FEBRUARY 2017
A fireplace in a textile manufacturing facility killed six staff earlier than it was extinguished.
JANUARY 2015
A fireplace at a plastics manufacturing facility on the outskirts of Dhaka killed 13 individuals and injured dozens.
NOVEMBER 2012
A fireplace at Tazreen Fashions manufacturing facility in Dhaka supplying international manufacturers killed 112 staff and injured greater than 150. The blaze, believed to have been brought on by a brief circuit, was the deadliest manufacturing facility fireplace in Bangladesh’s historical past.
DECEMBER 2010
A fireplace at a sportswear manufacturing facility supplying international retailers killed no less than 26 individuals and injured about 100 simply exterior Dhaka.
FEBRUARY 2010
A fireplace at a garment manufacturing facility in a Dhaka suburb killed 21 staff and injured about 50.
FEBRUARY 2006
A fireplace ripped via a textile manufacturing facility in Chittagong, killing 65 staff and injuring dozens.
JANUARY 2005
A fireplace at a garment manufacturing facility exterior Dhaka killed 22 individuals and injured greater than 50.
(Compiled by Krishna N. Das in New Delhi; Modifying by Frances Kerry)
