Three child factory workers burnt
Three child workers were severely burnt in a fire at a belt manufacturing factory in Malitola of Old Dhaka yesterday.
Ranjit Das, 16, and Ekram Hossain, and Sanjay Das, both aged 15, suffered 50 percent, 45 percent and 20 percent burns respectively in the fire that originated on the sixth floor of the six-storey building due to an electric short circuit around 3:00pm.
Sahidur Rahman, officer-in-charge (OC) of Bangshal Police Station, said the victims got burnt when they tried to douse the fire in the one-room factory.
The injured are being treated at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), said the OC.
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