8 killed in Bangladesh plastics factory fire
A protest last year marking the sixth anniversary of a deadly Bangladesh factory fire. At least 111 people were killed in a November 2012 blaze at a garment factory making apparel for Western retailers, in one of the country's most devastating fires. – EPA pic, December 12, 2019.
EIGHT people were killed and at least 24 critically injured when a devastating fire swept through an illegal plastics factory outside the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, police said today. The fire started on yesterday afternoon and quickly ripped through the ground floor of the Prime Patent Plastic factory at Keraniganj, just southwest of Dhaka, they said.
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