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Sat Jul 10, 2021, 01:58 PM Jul 2021

Bangladesh juice factory owner arrested after 52 people killed in blaze

The owner of a factory where at least 52 people died in a blaze in Bangladesh has been arrested along with seven other people.

"Among the 8, one of them is the owner of the factory and his staff," Zaidul Alam, the Police Superintendent of Narayanganj district in Bangladesh told CNN.

At least 52 people were killed and at least 50 others injured when a massive fire ripped through a juice factory in Bangladesh, officials said Friday.

The fire started Thursday afternoon on the ground floor of a six-story Hashem Foods Ltd. factory in Rupganj, east of the capital Dhaka, Debashis Bardhan, deputy director of the fire service and civil defense said.

The presence of chemicals and flammable substances like polythene and clarified butter contributed to the blaze in the factory, and made it more difficult to bring under control, the state-run Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha news agency reported.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/bangladesh-juice-factory-owner-arrested-after-52-people-killed-in-blaze/ar-AAM03Za

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