Locked exit gates may to be blame for the high death toll from a fire at a Bangladesh factory that makes sweaters for clothing brand H and M, which killed 21 people, police and witnesses said Friday. An electrical short-circuit likely triggered the fire at the sweater factory in Gazipur town, but an official probe has been launched into possible ...

An electrical short-circuit likely triggered a blaze that killed 21 people in a garment factory in an industrial town north of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, police said Friday. Most of the victims suffocated from smoke inhalation after they ran up the seven-storey Garib and Garib Sweater factory in Gazipur to escape the fire that broke out late Thursday, local police ...

At least 21 people were killed and 40 injured in a blaze that engulfed a clothing factory in an industrial town north of the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, police said. The fire broke out on the second floor of the Garib and Garib Sweater factory at Gazipur late Thursday, trapping scores of workers who were knitting sweaters for export, fire brigade ...