WATCH: Tongi Inferno
At least 24 people are killed and 74 injured in a huge fire triggered by a boiler explosion at plastic packaging factory in Tongi industrial area of Gazipur.
At least 24 people were killed and 74 injured, many critically, in a huge fire triggered by a boiler explosion at plastic packaging factory Tampaco Foils Limited in Tongi industrial area of Gazipur today.
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There were chemical-filled drums mostly kept on the ground floor of the factory, our correspondent reports quoting locals.