Road Accident

A terrible fire accident

took place in Savar, A

sub district in the Greater

Dhaka Area on 11 January

2016, on eight storey

commercial building Farid

Plaza.

Smoke engulfed the whole

building as a result of

which the people inside

the building could not

come out. The fire brigade

and civil Defence personnal

rushed to the spot to

extinguish fire. Army has

been deployed to quicken

recue work. No specific

cause of the fire is yet

know but the garment

authority says that it

has been originated from

short circuit. Total death

tool is 1,129. The number

of injuries has already

exceeded 2,500. They

have been taken to different

hospitals. Some of them

are severe danger. It is

strange but true that

there was no active fire

extinguisher in the factory.

It is considered to be

the deadliest garment

factory accident in modern

human history.