Tongi factory fire: Search continues for missing people
Rescuers have been continuing search operation for the people who remain missing since the fire incident triggered by a boiler explosion on Saturday at a factory in Tongi, Gazipur.
A few firefighters are continuing the search operation today, on the Eid day, Akhtaruzzaman, deputy assistant director of Gazipur's Fire Services and Civil Defence, told our Gazipur correspondent.
The death toll from the incident remains 33 as no more body was recovered from the factory since this morning, he said.
A team of army officials, who joined the search operation yesterday, will join later in the day.
Four bodies were pulled out of the rubble of Tampaco Foils Ltd factory in Tongi yesterday while four more bodies were recovered on Sunday.
On Saturday, 24 bodies were recovered and 50 suffered injuries after the fire broke out at the packaging factory around 6:00am, minutes before the workers were about to change shifts.
One injured person succumbed to his injuries at a hospital on the following day.
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