At least 37 people have been killed and more than 300 injured as a fire tore through a container depot and caused explosions in southeastern Bangladesh
The fire started on Saturday night at the BM Container Depot in Sitakunda, in Chittagong District, according to the Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha agency. Police and fire service personnel are trying to douse the flames and rescue people.The death toll could rise as some of the injured are in critical condition, said Chittagong civil surgeon Mohammed Elias Hossain, according to the Reuters news agency. He added that firefighters and police officers were among those injured.
Read MoreWhile the cause of the fire remains unknown, fire service officials said it may have originated from a vessel of hydrogen peroxide and diffused to other containers. "It's really getting harder as toxic fumes engulfed the area," Newton Das, a fire service official, told Reuters. Firefighters assess the damage at the site of the fire.
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