Staff Correspondent

At least one worker was killed and 33 others were severely burnt in a fire at a plastic factory in Hijoltola of Keraniganj on the outskirts of the capital yesterday afternoon.

The man killed in the fire could not be identified as the body was charred beyond recognition.

“We admitted 33 injured patients. Ten of them have 100 percent burns. The rest suffered burns in at least 20 percent of their bodies,” said Brig Gen AKM Nasir Uddin, director of Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

One of the injured workers Zakir Hossain, 22, said the fire broke out at a room where eight cylinders of inflammable gas were kept. He added that there was a leak in the lines.

Around 300 people worked in two shifts at Prime

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