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Plumes of fume continued to billow from a charred chemic warehouse successful the Bangladeshi superior connected Wednesday (October 15, 2025), a time aft a devastating occurrence claimed the lives of astatine slightest 16 people.
Fire work officials said the blaze was nether power but not yet afloat doused, The Daily Star paper reported.
At slightest 16 workers were killed and respective others injured connected Tuesday successful the occurrence that broke retired astatine a four-storey garment mill and a chemic warehouse successful Dhaka's Rupnagar area.
The toxic fumes emanating from the burnt chemic godown gathering caused respective workers astatine an adjacent garment mill to autumn sick erstwhile they arrived for work this morning, the paper said, adding that fume was inactive seen emerging from the gutted building.
Rescuers struggle
Officials said owed to the dense fume and beingness of chemicals, rescuers are struggling to behaviour operations inside.
Many workers from adjacent factories were seen extracurricular their buildings, reporting feelings of sickness owed to the fumes.
A comparative mourns portion holding a representation of a missing idiosyncratic pursuing a occurrence that broke retired astatine a garment mill and a chemic warehouse successful Dhaka | Photo Credit: Reuters
A 25-year-old pistillate idiosyncratic of K-Tex Industries located successful the aforesaid country said her mill was unopen down aft conscionable 2 hours of work, the paper reported.
"We came to the mill astir 8:00 americium and worked until astir 10:00 am. After that, the authorities unopen the mill for contiguous aft receiving accusation that workers astatine the adjacent Rising Fashion mill had fallen sick from inhaling toxic fumes," she said.
Bangladesh’s concern disasters
Bangladesh has a past of concern disasters. Past concern tragedies person often been attributed to information lapses.
In 2021, a occurrence engulfed a nutrient and portion mill successful Bangladesh, sidesplitting astatine slightest 52 people.
In February 2019, a blaze ripped done a 400-year-old country cramped with apartments, shops and warehouses successful the oldest portion of Dhaka and killed astatine slightest 67 people.
In 2012, astir 117 workers died erstwhile they were trapped down locked exits successful a garment mill successful Dhaka.
Bangladesh's worst concern catastrophe occurred the pursuing year, erstwhile the Rana Plaza garment mill extracurricular Dhaka collapsed, sidesplitting much than 1,100 people.
Another occurrence successful Old Dhaka successful a location illegally storing chemicals killed astatine slightest 123 radical successful 2010.
