Hashem Foods: factory or death trap?
It only took 19 hours for a factory to transform from the hustle and bustle of underpaid workers’ machine-like labour to survive to a burnt, smoke-filled site of tragedy where at least 51 lives were lost.
It only took 19 hours for a factory to transform from the hustle and bustle of underpaid workers' machine-like labour to survive to a burnt, smoke-filled site of tragedy where at least 51 lives were lost.
After two days of the fire at Hashem Food and Beverage Factory in Narayanganj's Rupganj, The Daily Star's chief reporter Pinaki Roy went inside the factory and tried to understand what had really happened that night.
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