Curious onlookers were watching a cylinder emitting gas in Gazipur. Now, 34 of them are fighting for their lives
Dhaka, March 13 -- Worker Mohammad Tareque went out of a garment factory in Gazipur's Kaliakair Upazila on Wednesday after hearing a noise.
He saw dozens of intrigued onlookers around a cylinder covered with a wet sack. The cylinder was emitting gas with a hissing sound, attracting the attention of passersby.
All hell broke loose as he took several steps after turning around to return to the factory.
A blaze engulfed the people on the street when someone lit a stove in a nearby house.
The Mouchak Tilerchala neighbourhood of mainly low-income people living in slum-like tin-roofed houses, each with several families, is usually crowded.
The street was also crowded, including with children and women, while some garment factory workers an...
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