Bangladesh factory explosion kills 25 people, critically injures 70

Bangladeshi firefighters and volunteers work to put out a fire and search for survivors at the site of an explosion in a factory in the key Bangladeshi garment manufacturing town of Tongi, just north of the capital Dhaka, on September 10, 2016. At least fifteen people have been killed and 70 injured in a huge fire triggered by a boiler explosion at a Bangladeshi packaging factory, officials said on September 10. / AFP PHOTO /

At least 25 people were killed and 70 injured, many critically, in a huge fire triggered by a boiler explosion at a Bangladeshi packaging factory, officials said yesterday as firefighters struggled to contain the blaze.

Around 100 people were working when flames tore through the four-storey building in the industrial town of Tongi, just north of the capital Dhaka.