Bangladesh constructing explosion kills 14 individuals, injures dozens

An explosion in a seven-story industrial constructing in Bangladesh’s capital on Tuesday killed at the very least 14 individuals and injured dozens, officers stated.

The explosion occurred in Gulistan, a busy industrial space of Dhaka, hearth division official Rashed bin Khaled stated by telephone.

The constructing contained a number of shops promoting plumbing merchandise and home goods, and its first two flooring had been badly broken, in keeping with hearth officers.

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It was not instantly clear what precipitated the explosion.

Khaled stated at the very least 11 hearth division groups had been working on the scene of the explosion.

Bacchu Mia, a police official on the state-run Dhaka Medical College Hospital, stated greater than 50 individuals had been taken there for remedy, and at the very least 14 of them had been useless.

Onlookers collect outdoors the positioning of an explosion, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on March 7, 2023.  (AP Photo)

Bangladesh has a historical past of fires and industrial disasters, together with factories catching hearth with staff trapped inside. Monitoring teams have blamed corruption and lax enforcement.

An enormous hearth on Sunday at a crammed refugee camp for Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh left hundreds homeless. No casualties had been reported at Balukhali camp in Cox’s Bazar district.

In 2012, about 117 staff died after they had been trapped behind locked exits in a garment manufacturing unit in Dhaka.

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The nation’s worst industrial catastrophe occurred the next 12 months, when the Rana Plaza garment manufacturing unit outdoors Dhaka collapsed, killing greater than 1,100 individuals.

In 2019, a blaze ripped via a 400-year-old space cramped with flats, retailers and warehouses within the oldest a part of Dhaka and killed at the very least 67 individuals. Another hearth in Old Dhaka in a home illegally storing chemical compounds killed at the very least 123 individuals in 2010.

In 2021, a fireplace at a meals and beverage manufacturing unit outdoors Dhaka killed at the very least 52 individuals, a lot of whom had been trapped inside by an illegally locked door.

Last 12 months, a fireplace at a transport container storage depot close to the nation’s primary Chittagong Seaport killed at the very least 41 individuals, together with 9 firefighters, and injured greater than 100 others.