Bangladesh juice factory fire kills 52 people CNN 3 hrs ago By Salman Saeed, Sophie Jeong and Amy Woodyatt, CNN © Munir Uz Zaman/AFP/Getty Images Some workers jumped off the roof to escape the fire.
At least 52 people were killed when a massive fire ripped through a juice factory in Bangladesh, officials said Friday.
The fire started Thursday afternoon on the ground floor of a six-story Hashem Foods Ltd. factory in Rupganj, east of the capital Dhaka, Debashis Bardhan, deputy director of the fire service and civil defense said.
The presence of chemicals and flammable substances like polythene and clarified butter contributed to the blaze in the factory, and made it more difficult to bring under control, the state-run Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha news agency reported.
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