Dhaka, Oct. 17 -- A massive fire that erupted at a garment factory warehouse in a seven-storey building inside the Chattogram Export Processing Zone (EPZ) on Thursday afternoon continued to rage through the entire structure till 9pm, while this report was being filed - despite more than six hours of relentless firefighting efforts.
Earlier a day, a massive fire in capital's Mirpur claimed atleast 16 lives. "The entire building has been engulfed in flames. There's nothing we can do until the structure collapses or the fire burns itself out.
The building could give way at any moment," said Shahidur Rahman, fire consultant of the Bangladesh Export Processing Zone Authority (BEPZA) in Chattogram.
Jasim Uddin, deputy director of Chattogram Fi...