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Patent Plastic Limited. Around 150 people, including many women, were working when the fire started, said Zakir, who has been working there for the last four years for a monthly salary of Tk 12,000.
Hospital authorities said the injured were all men. They were aged between 19 and 55.
Zakir suffered burn injuries in his arms and legs.
“We were trying to douse the fire using extinguishers and hosepipes inside the factory when we heard an explosion and there were flames all around us. Most of the workers got injured instantly,” he told The Daily Star at the DMCH.
Another worker Akash, who took his injured brother to DMCH, said, “After the explosion, me and my brother Mehedi Hasan ran for safety. But a fireball fell on him.”
He added that Mehedi, 20, who is also a student, was supposed to sit for admission tests today to one of the seven colleges affiliated with Dhaka University.
With burn injuries on most of his body, Mehedi was repeatedly asking his sister whether he would be able to sit for the exams.
State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid visited the DMCH and told reporters that the factory had no approval from the authorities.
The DMCH director said additional doctors, nurses, and medical supplies have been made available to tackle the situation.
Anxious family members, many of them in tears, thronged the burn unit of DMCH yesterday evening.
Police said the fire broke out around 4:15pm and engulfed the large tin shack quickly.
The factory used to manufacture single-use plastic glasses and plates.
After around one and a half hours of relentless effort, 10 fire engines from Fire Service Headquarters, Postagola and Keraniganj doused the fire around 6:10pm, officials said.
Shah Jaman, officer-in-charge of South Keraniganj Police Station, said police found the charred body around 5:45pm.
After the fire broke out, several hundred locals started pouring water on the burning factory with buckets. They also helped the injured workers who came out of the factory.
They first took the injured workers to local hospitals for primary treatment. The ambulances with the injured started arriving at DMCH after sunset.
Hijoltola resident Imtiaz Ali told reporters that he and several others rescued 10 to 12 injured workers from the factory.
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executive of Seattle-based engineering firm magniX.
The company designed the plane’s motor and worked in partnership with Harbour Air, which ferries half a million passengers a year between Vancouver, Whistler ski resort and nearby islands and coastal communities.
Ganzarski said the technology would mean significant cost savings for airlines -- not to mention zero emissions.
“This signifies the start of the electric aviation age,” he told reporters.
Civil aviation is one of the fastest growing sources of carbon emissions as people increasingly take to the skies and new technologies have been slow to get off the ground.
At 285 grammes of CO2 emitted per kilometre (mile) travelled by each passenger, airline industry emissions far exceed those from all other modes of transport, according to the European Environment Agency. The emissions contribute to global warming and climate change, which scientists say will unleash ever harsher droughts, superstorms, and sea-level rise.
The e-plane -- a 62-year-old, six-passenger DHC-2 de Havilland Beaver seaplane retrofitted with an electric motor -- was piloted by Greg McDougall, founder and chief executive of Harbour Air.
“For me that flight was just like flying a Beaver, but it was a Beaver on electric steroids. I actually had to back off on the power,” he said.
McDougall took the plane on a short loop along the Fraser River near Vancouver International Airport in front of around 100 onlookers soon after sunrise.
The flight lasted less than 15 minutes, according to an AFP journalist on the scene.
“Our goal is to actually electrify the entire fleet. There’s no reason not to,” said McDougall.
On top of fuel efficiency, the company would save millions in maintenance costs, as electric motors require “drastically” less upkeep, McDougall said.
However, Harbour Air will have to wait at least two years before it can begin electrifying its fleet of more than 40 seaplanes.
The e-plane has to be tested further to confirm it is reliable and safe. In addition, the electric motor must be approved and certified by regulators.