The death toll from the deadly fire in Dhaka’s Keraniganj has risen to 20 after another victim succumbed to his injuries in the hospital.
Abu Bakr Siddiqui Sohan, 19, died after a seven-day battle with extensive burn injuries at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery on Wednesday (Dec 18).
He died around 12:40 pm, the hospital’s resident doctor Partha Shankar Pal told Bangla Tribune.
A devastating fire gutted the Prime Pet and Plastic Industry factory in Keraniganj’s Chunkutia on Dec 11.
Firefighters pulled out one body from the factory while 33 others were hospitalised. Other victims subsequently died in hospital.
The plastics factory was operating without permission for five years, according to the Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments.