Nine killed in hearth at garment manufacturing facility and chemical warehouse in Bangladesh

At least 9 staff had been killed and eight others injured on Tuesday (October 14, 2025) in a hearth that broke out at a garment manufacturing facility and a chemical warehouse in Bangladesh capital, officers mentioned.

The devastating hearth broke out at a chemical warehouse subsequent to the garment manufacturing facility, Talha Bin Jasim, an officer on the Fire Service and Civil Defence Media Wing, was quoted as saying by the state-run BSS information company.

Nine our bodies have been recovered from the primary and second flooring of the garment manufacturing facility, Fire Service and Civil Defence Director (Operation and Maintenance) Lt Col Mohammad Tajul Islam Chowdhury informed reporters. “We suspect that every one of them have died after inhaling poisonous gasoline,” Mr. Chowdhury was quoted as saying by Bangla language day by day Prothom Alo.

He added that the fireplace was introduced below management, and firefighters are conducting searches on the garment manufacturing facility.

“The quantity may go up,” Talha Bin Jasim mentioned.

He mentioned they acquired the report of the fireplace at 11:40 a.m. (native time), and the primary workforce arrived on the scene at 11:56 a.m.

The two buildings are situated facet by facet in entrance of Bangladesh University of Business and Technology (BUBT) in Rupnagar, he mentioned.

Nine firefighting engines rushed to the spot round 11:56 a.m. and doused the blaze within the buildings, he mentioned.

Bangladesh has a historical past of business disasters. Past industrial tragedies have typically been attributed to security lapses.

In 2021, a hearth engulfed a food and drinks manufacturing facility in Bangladesh, killing at the very least 52 individuals.

In February 2019, a blaze ripped by way of a 400-year-old space cramped with flats, retailers and warehouses within the oldest a part of Dhaka and killed at the very least 67 individuals.

In 2012, about 117 staff died after they had been trapped behind locked exits in a garment manufacturing facility in Dhaka.

Bangladesh’s worst industrial catastrophe occurred the next yr, when the Rana Plaza garment manufacturing facility outdoors Dhaka collapsed, killing greater than 1,100 individuals.

Another hearth in Old Dhaka in a home illegally storing chemical compounds killed at the very least 123 individuals in 2010.