At least 21 people have been killed and 50 injured in a fire at a Bangladesh clothing factory, local television channels said.
The fire raged for more than two hours at the Garib and Garib Newaj Garment factory in Gazipur, about 50 kilometres north of the capital, Dhaka. Fire services said 18 workers were seriously injured, 13 of them women.
Clothing factories in Bangladesh are prone to fires as a result of poor safety standards. The textile industry is one of the country's most important, accounting for more than $US10 billion in exports annually, around 80 per cent of total exports.
Eleven firefighters brought the blaze under control after more than an hour and rescue crews searched the building for the dead and injured.
A local reporter said some of the injured were fighting for their lives in hospital and the death toll was likely to rise.
The cause of the fire was not immediately known. Relatives of the victims flocked to the scene.
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