{"id":269937,"date":"2023-03-07T09:01:35","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T15:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=269937"},"modified":"2023-03-07T09:01:35","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T15:01:35","slug":"bangladesh-building-explosion-kills-14-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=269937","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh Building Explosion Kills 14 People"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) \u2014 An explosion in a seven-story commercial building in Bangladesh’s capital on Tuesday killed at least 14 people and injured dozens, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The explosion occurred in Gulistan, a busy commercial area of Dhaka, fire department official Rashed bin Khaled said by phone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The building contained several stores selling plumbing products and household items, and its first two floors were badly damaged, according to fire officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was not immediately clear what caused the explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Khaled said at least 11 fire department teams were working at the scene of the explosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bacchu Mia, a police official at the state-run Dhaka Medical College Hospital, said more than 50 people were taken there for treatment, and at least 14 of them were dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bangladesh has a history of fires and industrial disasters, including factories catching fire with workers trapped inside. Monitoring groups have blamed corruption and lax enforcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A massive fire on Sunday at a crammed refugee camp<\/a> for Rohingya Muslims in southern Bangladesh left thousands homeless. No casualties were reported at Balukhali camp in Cox\u2019s Bazar district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2012, about 117 workers died when they were trapped behind locked exits in a garment factory in Dhaka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The country\u2019s worst industrial disaster occurred the following year, when the Rana Plaza garment factory outside Dhaka collapsed, killing more than 1,100 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, a blaze ripped through a 400-year-old area cramped with apartments, shops and warehouses in the oldest part of Dhaka and killed at least 67 people. Another fire in Old Dhaka in a house illegally storing chemicals killed at least 123 people in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2021, a fire at a food and beverage factory outside Dhaka killed at least 52 people, many of whom were trapped inside by an illegally locked door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last year, a fire at a shipping container storage depot near the country’s main Chittagong Seaport killed at least 41 people, including nine firefighters, and injured more than 100 others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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