The fire caused by a strong explosion at a container depot in Bangladesh this Sunday has already caused at least 28 deaths and more than 100 injuries. While the emergency services try to put out the flames and rescue the victims.
The fire started just after 9 p.m. yesterday (15:20 GMT) at the BM container service located in the Sitakunda area of Chittagong, about 20 kilometers from the largest seaport in Bangladesh. The blasts shattered the windows of nearby buildings and were felt up to 4 kilometers away, officials and local media said.
"We are not sure how it started, it could have been due to an act of sabotage," BM director Muzibur Rahman reported to Efe, adding that at the time the explosion occurred, there were about 250 people inside the warehouse. workers.
The head of the Chittagong fire service, Anisur Rahman, explained that as the flames began to spread, "some containers began to explode. We have faced 16 units, but we have not yet been able to control the fire", since the deposit it has around 50,000.
Currently, the Asian country has 19 private container depots and four of them are located in Sitakunda.
Industrial fires and accidents are common in Bangladesh, a country with few security measures and in which there are usually a large number of victims.
In 2019, a fire at a chemical plant in the Bangladeshi capital killed 70 people and injured 55 others. Seven years earlier, at least 119 people died in a garment factory fire in the Asian country.
