Bangladesh factory owner charged with murder after 52 fires | Bangladesh News

Seven others were also arrested for allegedly violating safety regulations as a result of a large fire that broke out at a food processing site.

Bangladeshi police have arrested him in connection with the murder, the owner of a factory that killed at least 52 people in a large fire, as children under 11 were known to be working there.

The owner’s four children were also resurrected on Thursday among eight people arrested on Saturday and lasted more than a day as a result of hell. Another study has been launched on the use of child labor in the facilities.

Emergency services told Al Jazeera that 49 bodies had been recovered at the Hashem Food and Beverage Factory in Rupganj, an industrial village 25 km east of the capital Dhaka. Three people were also killed after jumping out of the building.

The burned victims were piled into an ambulance fleet and taken to the funeral home amid the shouts and tears of the people they were seeing on the street.

The chief of police in the Narayanganj district where the factory is located, Jayedul Alam, said the entrance was locked at the time of the fire and the factory had violated a number of fire and safety regulations.

“It was a deliberate murder,” the police chief told AFP news agency.

A spokesman for the fire services also said they had locked the exit door to the main staircase. Also, very flammable chemicals and plastics were stored.

Al Jazeera’s Tanvir Chowdhury, outside the Rupganj plant, said authorities had made the move swiftly, warning that it would take “a few days or weeks” before the arrests could be made.

“Rupganj police have filed a murder case against them,” Chowdhury said, referring to the detainees.

Authorities said the rescue operation was over. However, Chowdhury said some employees were still missing, according to their relatives.

Meanwhile, Sufian State Labor Minister Monnujan said consultations have begun on the use of child labor at the plant.

Sufian told AFP he spoke to two residents who were 14 years old at the hospital. One woman said her 11-year-old niece was working at the factory and was missing.

Nazma Akter, founder and chief executive officer of the Awaj Foundation’s workers ’rights, said Al Jazeera is a common safety irresponsibility in Bangladeshi factories – and especially that children lack protection.

“It is very sad and very disappointing that so many children have been killed in the fire incident,” Akter said.

“We have [a] if there is a law, a young worker or a child worker, [it should be] five hours of work, three hours of education but … they are working like adult workers – 10 to 12 hours, seven days a week, ”he added.

“No one cares about employee life and safety issues.”

Bangladesh underwent reforms in the aftermath of the Rana Plaza disaster in 2013, when a nine-storey complex collapsed, killing more than 1,100 people.

But there have been fires and other disasters since then. In February 2019, at least 70 people were killed when a fire ripped out Dhaka apartments and illegally stored chemicals.