Chemicals may have been stored on the Tampaco Foils factory ground floor, which officials say would explain how the fire spread so rapidly.
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The death toll from a boiler explosion and subsequent fire at a packaging factory in Bangladesh has risen to 31 after more bodies were found in the debris.
Fifty more people were hospitalized after an explosion in the boiler room caused the fire, as almost 100 people were in the four-story building.
Around 100 people were in the building when the fire broke out.
Witnesses said the volunteers tried several times to enter the collapsed building in search of missing workers, but were forced back by thick-black smokes and flames.
A boiler explosion is believed to have started the blaze around 12 miles north of the capital, Dhaka.
In 2013, the collapse of Rana Plaza, a building outside Dhaka, killed 1,135 workers mainly employed in the garment industry.
“After this fire we will meet our other suppliers and review their safety measures as well”, said the spokesman.
The accident had claimed as many as 1100 lives.
Bangladeshi firefighters and volunteers work to put out a fire and search for survivors at the site of an explosion in a factory in Tongi. “They’ll probe why the fire occurred and whether the factory lacked proper fire safety measures”.
German news agency DPA reported that the father of one of the deceased had filed suit against the factory’s owner, Syed Mokbul Hussain, a former lawmaker, and eight others for culpable homicide.
That tragedy triggered worldwide outrage and successfully put pressure on United States and European clothing brands to improve deplorable safety conditions at the factories that supply them.
He confirmed that at least 23 people had died and local television stations said about 50 people were injured.
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“We are now unaware of the precise cause of the fire, but have been informed that the Bangladesh government has set up a formal investigation”.
