Fire dept probing factory fire

The fire department is investigating Tuesday’s blaze at the Aswad Composite Mills Ltd in Gazipur that killed seven workers.

Gazipur Fire Service’s Deputy Assistance Director Md Aktaruzzaman Liton said they were already probing the incident.

“We have taken photographs of the site and interviewed the workers.”

A probe team formed by the district administration, however, was yet to begin work in Thursday, two days after the fire gutted the garment factory, said the probe body chief Gazipur district’s Additional Magistrate Md Mohsin.

Mohsin said they were busy handing over the bodies of charred workers.

The factory authorities had begun paying salaries and Eid bonus to its workers and employees around 3:30pm, said the factory’s Senior Manager Abdul Halim.

Earlier, on Oct 7, the workers were paid their arrear dues.

Seven workers of the factory were killed in the fire on Tuesday afternoon.

The district administration has given Tk 20,000 to each of the victims’ families, while the factory authorities gave Tk 50,000 for each burial.

The factory authorities has also promised to pay half a million taka to each affected family, and also Tk 2,00,000 as insurance money.