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Bangladesh factory fire death toll 104
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November 25, 2012, Sunday
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The death toll from a fire at a Bangladeshi factory was lowered from 121 to 104 today, the operations director of the fire brigade told AFP.
"There were some double counting as different fire teams were working on different floors," Major Mahbub, who uses only one name, said.
"But now we have a total of 104 dead bodies including several who jumped to their death. Most bodies were found on the second floor. Most died of suffocation."
"We resumed our search this morning and found the bodies lying on different floors of the factory building," fire brigade director general Brigadier General Abu Nayeem Mohammad Shahidullah told AFP.
The fire broke out in the ground-floor warehouse of the multi-story Tazreen Fashion factory 30 kilometers north of Dhaka last night, trapping hundreds of workers on the upper floors, police said.
Police inspector Mostofa Kamal had previously told AFP that nine workers died and about 100 workers were injured.
Kamal said many workers jumped from the factory's upper floors to escape the flames before firefighters arrived to put the blaze out.
The cause was not immediately known but fires as a result of short circuits and shoddy electrical wiring are common in Bangladeshi garment plants, which use cheap labor to produce clothes shipped to Western countries.
"There were some double counting as different fire teams were working on different floors," Major Mahbub, who uses only one name, said.
"But now we have a total of 104 dead bodies including several who jumped to their death. Most bodies were found on the second floor. Most died of suffocation."
"We resumed our search this morning and found the bodies lying on different floors of the factory building," fire brigade director general Brigadier General Abu Nayeem Mohammad Shahidullah told AFP.
The fire broke out in the ground-floor warehouse of the multi-story Tazreen Fashion factory 30 kilometers north of Dhaka last night, trapping hundreds of workers on the upper floors, police said.
Police inspector Mostofa Kamal had previously told AFP that nine workers died and about 100 workers were injured.
Kamal said many workers jumped from the factory's upper floors to escape the flames before firefighters arrived to put the blaze out.
The cause was not immediately known but fires as a result of short circuits and shoddy electrical wiring are common in Bangladeshi garment plants, which use cheap labor to produce clothes shipped to Western countries.
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