"Bangladesh: Deadly fire sweeps through factory outside Dhaka", 16 December 2019

At least 10 people have been killed in a fire at a factory outside Bangladesh's capital Dhaka, the second deadly factory fire in the area in less than a week, officials have said.

The fire broke out on Sunday evening in the Luxury Fan Factory in the Gazipur area... several people were injured...

It was not immediately clear how many workers were inside the factory when the fire began or what caused the blaze.

Such fires, many of them occurring in unregulated factories, are common in Bangladesh...

On Wednesday, a fire in a plastic factory near Dhaka killed at least 15 people...