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Bangladesh: Fire breaks out at Chattogram container depot, 41 die
Dhaka: As many as 41 people died as a fire broke out at a container depot in Chattogram’s Sitakunda in Bangladesh, media reports said on Sunday.
The injured people were rushed to hospital for treatment.
The fire broke out at the BM Container Depot in the Kadmarsul area around 9:30 pm on Saturday, reports bdnews24.
Chattogram Fire Service personnel were finding it tough to douse the fire and reinforcements were called in from Feni, Noakhali and Cumilla at around 3:30 am.
As of 2 pm on Sunday, 41 bodies were recovered and brought to the Chattogram Medical College Hospital morgue, ASI Alauddin Talukder of the hospital’s police outpost told bdnews24.
So far, 13 deceased people have been identified.
Five of the dead are people belonging to fire services.
They are Moniruzzaman, 32, Mominul Haque, 24, Md Mohiuddin, 22, Habibur Rahman, 26, Rabiul Alam, 19, Tofayel Ahmed, 22, Alauddin, 35, Md Sumon, 28, Md Ibrahim, 27, Md Shakil, 22, Nipon Chakma, 45, Rana Miah, 22, and Afzal Hossain, 20, reports bdnews24.
Anisur Rahman, deputy director of Chattogram divisional fire service, told the news portal on Sunday morning that although the fire was brought under control, it spread again due to repeated explosions.
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