Via The Daily Star, a report that reminds me of the terrible Triangle Shirtwaist fire in New York City in 1911: Ashulia RMG factory fire rises to 124.
The death toll from a fire that raged through a garment factory in Ashulia rose to 124 till Sunday morning.
The fire that started at Tazreen Fashion near Dhaka Export Processing Zone in Ashulia on Saturday evening came under control around 5:55am Sunday, said Fire Service and Civil Defence sources.
Sources said the death toll may rise as rescue operation was going on when this report was filed around 11:12.
Initially nine deaths were recorded on Saturday night and more 115 charred bodies were recovered from the factory on Sunday morning.
Police, fire-fighters and witnesses on Saturday said those killed in the incident did not suffer burns, but they died after jumping off different floors of the eight-storey Tazreen Fashion at Nischintapur in a bid to escape the blaze that started on the ground floor around 6:50pm.
