Tazreen garment factory
Nearly 800 people have been injured in scores of largely unreported fires in garment and textile factories in Bangladesh in the last 12 months, according to new figures compiled by international labour campaigners. The high numbers of casualties will raise concerns at the slow pace of change in the politically unstable south Asian state, where more than 1,130 people died when a building housing factories making garments for chains including Primark and Matalan collapsed in April. The tragedy was the worst industrial accident anywhere in the world for a generation.
Mollah Slum
At least three people were injured in a fire that broke out at a garment factory at East Kazipara in Dhaka’s Mirpur area this morning. The injured were admitted to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital(DMCH). The fire originated on the ground floor of a six-storey building at 3:15am, our correspondent reports quoting Mahfuz Riben, duty officer of Fire Service and Civil Defence.