A garment worker was killed after Gazipur Industrial Police personnel allegedly shot him from close range as RMG workers and law enforcers clashed in Gazipur and Ashulia yesterday.
Gazipur factory worker killed in fire
A worker of a garments factory in Sreepur municipality of Gazipur was killed in a fire on Saturday morning.
Deceased Masum Shikder, 23, was the son of Shurjo Shikder of Doha. He worked at the godown of Dhaka Garments and Washing Ltd.
Sreepur Fire Service and Civil Defence deputy assistant Abdul Hamid said the fire broke out at the chemical godown of the factory at Dakkhin Bhangnahati area around 10am when Masum was working inside it.
The factory authorities put the blaze under control before the fire fighting unit reached there. They, later, recovered the charred body of the youth. The whole godown was gutted by the fire.
1 dead, 42 workers unwell after fire at chemical warehouse in Gazipur factory
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A factory worker, Masum Sikder (23), died as a fire broke out at a chemical warehouse of a garment factory in Sreepur upazila of Gazipur this morning.
Sub-inspector Mohammad Sadek of Sreepur Police Station confirmed the death after searching the factory. At least 42 workers fell sick after inhaling toxic gas from the fire.
The fire originated around 10:00am at Dhaka Garments and Washing Ltd s godown and two firefighting units doused it within half an hour, said Mia Raj, senior station officer of Sreepur Fire Station.