BANGLADESH: Garment factory fire kills seven workers
By Siddique Islam | 28 January 2013
At least seven workers were killed and 50 others injured in a fire that raged through an unlicensed garment factory in Dhaka on Saturday (26 January) - just two months after 112 lost their lives in another apparel factory fire in Bangladesh.
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