Huge blaze breaks out at container storage facility 40km from country’s main sea port, Chittagong, with toll expected to rise further
At least 34 people have died after a fire that sparked a huge chemical explosion and was still blazing on Sunday at a shipping container depot inThe toll was expected to rise with over 300 people injured, some of them seriously, and eyewitnesses said they had seen unrecovered bodies in the facility near the major southern port of Chittagong.
“There are still some bodies inside the fire-affected places. I saw eight or 10 bodies,” one volunteer told reporters. Chowdhury said the injured had been rushed to different hospitals in the region as doctors were brought back from holiday to help in the emergency. Mominur Rahman, the chief administrator of Chittagong district, said while the fire was largely under control, there were “still several pockets of fire in the depot”.Rahman said the depot contained millions of dollars of garment products waiting to be exported to Western retailers, for whom Bangladesh is a key supplier.
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