37 confirmed dead, over 200 injured in Bangladesh container depot fire, explosions
STORY: 37 confirmed dead, over 200 injured in Bangladesh container depot fire, explosions
DATELINE: June 5, 2022
LENGTH: 00:00:45
LOCATION: Dhaka
CATEGORY: OTHERS
SHOTLIST:
1. various of firefighters rescuing at the scene
2. various of the incident
STORYLINE:
At least 37 people died as a container depot in Bangladesh's Chattogram district, about 242 km southeast of the capital Dhaka, caught fire followed by explosions on Saturday night, a senior official said Sunday.
The fire broke out in one of the containers loaded with chemicals in the container yard located in Sitakunda on the outskirts of Chattogram.
The district's chief administrator Mohammad Mominur Rahman told Xinhua over mobile phone that the death toll of the depot fire has risen to 37 on Sunday afternoon after "another 23 people succumbed to their injuries."
He said at least 200 others suffered burn injuries in the devastating fire that broke out at about 8:00 p.m. local time (1400 GMT) Saturday at the private BM Container Depot Ltd.
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