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Bangladesh container depot¹ fire kills nearly 50 people and injures hundreds

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A massive fire near a port in southeastern Bangladesh has killed more than 49 people and injured 200 others. The fire broke out at an import-export container depot.

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A massive fire near the biggest port in Bangladesh has killed about 50 people this weekend. Investigators³ are trying to learn what caused it and why industrial disasters seem to keep happening there. NPR's Lauren Frayer reports from Mumbai.

LAUREN FRAYER, BYLINE⁴: Firefighters are still spraying down the wreckage⁵, charred⁶ husks of shipping⁷ containers near Chittagong in Bangladesh's southeast. An import-export depot caught fire there Saturday. It took firefighters more than 24 hours to extinguish the flames. Some of them are among the dead.

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FRAYER: Workers told local media it began with an explosion in a container filled with chemicals...

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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: (Non-English language spoken).

FRAYER: ...And that many more explosions followed. They were felt more than two miles away.

AMIRUL HAQUE AMIN: It was shocking for me. On the other hand, I was angry.

FRAYER: Amirul Haque Amin lived through Bangladesh's worst industrial disaster - the 2013 collapse⁸ of the Rana Plaza⁹ garment factory, which killed 1,100 people. He heads a trade union that pushed for new safety rules after that. But other industries, like ports, he says, have not followed suit.

AMIN: In many other sectors¹⁰, this issue - safe workplace - it is still now not ensured.

FRAYER: Bangladesh has seen huge industrial growth. Its GDP per capita recently surpassed India, says economist¹¹ Khondaker Golam Moazzem.

KHONDAKER GOLAM MOAZZEM: But unfortunately, the industrial safety for the workers didn't actually maintain a balance along with that growth.

FRAYER: Workers at this port may not have known they were dealing¹² with explosive chemicals, he says. An investigation¹³ is underway.

Lauren Frayer, NPR News, Mumbai.