At least 14 workers were injured while scrambling down the stairs of a garment factory in panic as a fire broke out in the building at Nasirabad in Chittagong on Saturday.
The injured were Mahfuza, 21, Baby, 25, Rupa, 22, Rubi, 20, Jahanara, 28, Nazma, 26, Jaheda, 21, Rina, 22, Khadiza, 22, Ranu, 22, Banu Akter, 20, Mainuddin, 32, Yousuf, 22, and Narayan, 40.
Jashim Uddin, assistant director of Chittagong Fire Service and Civil Defence, said the fire had started at the sewing section of the Uni Garment at about 9:00am from a short-circuit.
However, the factory employees and workers managed to put out the flames before the arrival of fire engines.
‘A number of workers sustained injuries while coming downstairs hurriedly from the second floor where the fire broke out,’ he added.
Jahirul Islam, sub-inspector at the police outpost at Chittagong Medical College Hospital, said 14 workers with injuries were taken to the hospital.
-With New Age input
