<img title="Bangladeshi firefighters at the destroyed garment factory. Pic/AFP" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2017/jul/Boiler-explodes.jpg" alt="Bangladeshi firefighters at the destroyed garment factory. Pic/AFP" />Bangladeshi firefighters at the destroyed garment factory. Pic/AFP
A boiler explosion at a Bangladeshi garment factory killed 10 people and injured dozens, fire officials said on Tuesday, the latest accident to hit one of the world&rsquo;s biggest garment producers.
The incident late on Monday happened during maintenance work at the factory owned by Multifabs Limited. &ldquo;Nine people were killed in the blast and one died in hospital,&rdquo; fire service official Palash Chandra Modak said. Multifabs said the six-year-old boiler, procured from Germany, had just been serviced.
&ldquo;This was an accident. Everything was fine,&rdquo; said Mahiuddin Faruqui, the company&rsquo;s chairman and managing director adding, &ldquo;The boiler was running well. After servicing when workers were trying to restart it, it went off.&rdquo;

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A boiler explosion in Bangladesh has killed 10 and sevrely injured dozens. The incident took place inside a garment factory on Tuesday leaving a large number of people devastated.&nbsp;

10 reported dead in Bangladesh garment factory boiler explosion

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