BanglaCapsule | Fire in Bangladesh Timeline  

1985 Twenty seven passengers were burnt alive, another died by jumping out in panic and over a hundred others were injured as three bogies of the speeding Simanta Express train caught fire between Puradaha and Bheramara stations in Kushtia.
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1995 Bongo Bazar, popular clothing market in Gulistan, was burned down from a devastating fire.
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2000 52 people were killed in a fire at the Chowdhury Knitwear Garments factory at Shibpur.
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2001 Thousands of houses were burnt to ashes at Bainkhola slum near the riverbank of Mirpur section no 01.
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2001 A devastating fire burnt 200 houses fully in the slum on the cross dam near Sahid Boddhijibi Sriti Soudh.
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2001 A devastating fire burnt fishing nets and boats, houses of 150 fishermen families in the fishing village at Halisahar of Chittagong.
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2001 A devastating fire burnt hundreds of houses, killed one person and injured 32 in a slum near Tejgaon.
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2001 A devastating fire burnt 700 houses and left 15 people injured at Botga village of Toria Union of Atoari Upazilla of Panchagar district Estimated loss 50-lac taka.
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2001 A devastating fire killed 10 persons, injured 12 and burnt 1000 houses at the labor colony of Dhaka match factory in Shampur area of Dhaka.
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2001 A devastating fire burnt 2000 houses at Vitorbaria village of Baliadangi Upazila of Thakorgaon district. Estimated loss 1 corer taka.
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2004 At least 5 women were crushed to death and dozens were injured when a false fire alarm caused about 4,000 workers to rush for the exits of a garment factory.
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2004 Fire destroys 1,800 shops mostly made of bamboo and tin in the Gulistan commercial district; one killed and 15 injured, most of them fire-fighters.
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2005 A fire at the Sun Knit garment factory in Siddhirganj killed 22 people. Most of the exits were found locked.
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2006 85 people killed in blaze from a fire at a textile mill in the south-eastern port city of Chittagong.
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2007 Bangladesh Steel and Engineering Corporation (BSEC) Bhaban housing a dozen of media and headquarters of NTV and RTV, financial and business enterprises in the capital's Karwan Bazar area burnt in a devastating fire, leaving 4 dead and 100 injured.
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2008 A fire swept through a five-story building in a crowded section of the capital, Dhaka, killing at least 10 people and injuring five others.
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2009 A raging fire reduced the upper levels of the capital's Bashundhara City shopping complex and destroyed floors 16-21 to a skeleton, killing at least seven people and injuring 20 others.
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2009 A raging fire in the National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) warehouse in Tejgaon industrial area of the capital burnt a large stockpile of textbooks and printing materials.
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2010 A fire in the sprawling tower block development of Japan Garden City in Mohammadpur area claimed seven lives including two women and two children.
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2010 At least 21 garment workers, including 15 women, died from smoke inhalation in a fire at Garib & Garib sweater factory in Bhogra of Gazipur.
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2010 At least 121 people were killed when a blazing fire gutted 8 buildings and over 20 shops in Nimtoli in Old Dhaka.
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2010 Nine workers of a chemical factory died as a fire broke out at the factory in South Jatrabari, Dhaka
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2010 A boiler explosion at the Eurotex factory in Dhaka started a fire, which led to a stampede that killed two workers and injured another 62.
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2010 At least 26 were killed and 100 injured as a fire broke out at a garment factory of Ha-Meem Group at Narsinghapur in Ashulia.
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2010 10 workers died from a fire at an anti-mosquito coil and spray factory at Khilkhet.
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2012 A devastating fire swept through Tazreen Fashions Limited garment factory in the Ashulia, worst ever factory blaze to date in Bangladesh, killing at least 110 workers.
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2013 A fire at the Smart Export Garment Ltd. factory killed seven female workers. An investigation was ordered the next day under allegations that the emergency exit was locked.
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2013 A fire fed by huge piles of acrylic products used to make sweaters killed 8 people at the Tung Hai Sweater factory in the Mirpur district of Dhaka.
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2013 Nine people were killed in a fire at the Tung Hai Sweater factory in Dhaka.
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2013 At least 10 people were killed in a fire at the Aswad garment factory in Gazipur.
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2015 At least 13 people including two women were killed when a fire swept through Nasim Plastic House, a plastic factory in a crowded market in the suburb of Mirpur.
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2016 Fire breaks out at Bashundhara City shopping mall in Dhaka, this was the third time the building caught fire in the past seven years.
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2016 A boiler exploded and triggered a fire at Tampaco Foils Ltd, a packaging factory in Tongi, killing at least 29 workers and injuring dozens.
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2016 A fire broke out in the Korail slum at Mohakhali area in Dhaka and displaced over 500 families.
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2019 A deadly fire broke out in the Chawkbazar area of old Dhaka at about 10.40pm local time killing 70. The blaze began at an apartment building which was partly used to store chemicals that triggered the incident.
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2019 Fire broke out ion the eighth floor of the 22-storey FR Tower building at the commercial Banani area of Dhaka city around 1:00 pm BST. It caused 25 deaths and more than 70 others were injured.
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2019 In Bangladesh at least ten people were killed in a fire at the Luxury Fan Factory in the Gazipur area outside Dhaka.
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2020 A gas leak in an underground pipeline caused the six air conditioners to explode almost simultaneously during Friday evening prayers at the Baitul Salat mosque in the central district of Narayanganj killing 27 worshippers.
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2020 24 people died after a leak in a gas pipeline caused an explosion in a mosque in Narayanganj district. Several others were injured.
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2023 A devastating fire has gutted shops at Bangabazar, one of the biggest clothing markets in Dhaka, ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr. Bangabazar burnt to ashes once in 1995 before it was rebuilt.
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