Twelve fire fighters were among the 49 dead in Saturday’s chemical laden container blast in a Chittagong depot which burnt over a thousand loaded boxes causing financial loss of nearly US$100 million, as estimated.
It took 25 hours to bring the devastating fire under control, blaming the presence of dozens of hydrogen peroxide laden containers behind the delay, at the depot namely BM container depot, located at 25 kilometres away from the port city of Chittagong.
Earlier on Sunday morning Army...