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Case filed over Tongi packaging factory fire

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Bangladeshi firefighters work to put out a huge fire at the site of an explosion in a factory in the key Bangladeshi garment manufacturing town of Tongi, just north of the capital Dhaka, on September 10, 2016. Photo: AFP
Bangladeshi firefighters work to put out a huge fire at the site of an explosion in a factory in the key Bangladeshi garment manufacturing town of Tongi, just north of the capital Dhaka, on September 10, 2016. Photo: AFP

A case has been filed over the fire incident in the factory of ‘Tampaco Foils Ltd’ in Tongi BSCIC Industrial Area of Gazipur, which has so far claimed 33 lives.

Ajit Chakrabarty, sub-inspector of Tongi police station, filed the case with the police station on Sunday morning, said assistant sub-inspector Nitai Chandra, reports UNB news agency.

Owner of the factory Syed Md Mokbul Hossain, also a former MP, his wife Parvin and eight others were made accused in the case.

Earlier on 11 September, Abdul Quader Patwary, father of deceased worker Mohammad Hossain Jewel, filed a murder case against eight people, including the factory owner, with the police station.

Firefighters extinguish a fire at a garment packaging factory outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, September 10, 2016.Photo: Reuters
Firefighters extinguish a fire at a garment packaging factory outside Dhaka, Bangladesh, September 10, 2016.Photo: Reuters

The seven other accused are Mokbul’s wife Parvin, factory managing director Tanvir Ahmed, general manager Shafiqur Rahman, manager (administration) Monir Hossain, manager (general) Samir Ahmed, manager Hanif and DMD Alamgir Hossain.

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