Giant fire destroys another garment factory in Dhaka
A huge fire has destroyed another Bangladesh garment factory supplying key Western brands in the Gazipur district of Dhaka, authorities said. There were no initial reports of casualties.
As many as 18,000 people worked at the factory, which is among the ten biggest in the country, but all employees had reportedly left by the time the fire broke out in the early hours of this morning.
Head of firefighting operations, Mahbubur Rahman, said he believed the fire had been started by some of the workers.
