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25 November 2012
Last updated at
10:32
In pictures: Bangladesh factory fire
More than 100 people have been killed in a fire that tore through a clothes factory in Bangladesh - in one of the worst industrial accidents in the country's history.
The blaze in the multi-floor Tazreen Fashion factory outside Dhaka reportedly started on the ground floor in the warehouse and quickly spread.
A number of people trapped inside died after jumping from the building to escape the inferno. It took firefighters nearly six hours to extinguish the blaze.
A senior fire department official said the death toll was so high because the factory had no fire exit on the outside of the building.
Army and police were deployed to carry the bodies to a mortuary.
A number of factory employees are still missing, and there are fears that the death toll will rise further.
Thousands of relatives and friends later gathered at the scene - desperate for news about their loved ones. Some in the crowd blamed the factory owner for the disaster - a claim he denied.
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