Bangladesh Factory Fire: Conflagration Kills More Than 100

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    A fire swept through a garment factory on the outskirts of Bangladesh's capital killing more than 100 people, the fire brigade said on Sunday, in the country's worst ever factory blaze.

    Working conditions at Bangladeshi factories are notoriously poor, with little enforcement of health and safety laws and overcrowding and locked fire doors common, but the cause of this fire was not immediately known.

    The blaze at the nine-storey Tazreen Fashion factory in the Ashulia industrial belt of Dhaka started on the ground floor late on Saturday and spread, trapping hundreds of workers.

    "So far, the confirmed death toll is 109, including nine who died by jumping from the building," Mizanur Rahman, deputy director of the fire brigade, told Reuters.

    Witnesses said the workers, mostly women, ran for safety as the fire engulfed the plant, but were unable to get through narrow exits.

    "Many jumped out from the windows and were injured, or died on the spot," Milon, a resident, said.

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