https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/bangladesh-garment-factory-fire-kills-nine-with-toll-likely-rise-official-says-2025-10-14/
Chowdhury said the owners of the factory had not yet been identified. “The police and the army are trying to locate them,” he said. He added that neither the garment factory nor the chemical warehouse had approval or any fire safety plan. Based on the initial findings, he said the garment factory had a tin roof with a grilled door that was kept locked. “The workers couldn’t reach the upper level,” he said.... ...Poor fire and building safety standards lead to dozens of such disasters in Bangladesh each year, and past accidents have tarnished the country's garments sector, which employs 4 million people and makes up more than 10% of the country's gross domestic product. In 2012, a fire at Tazreen Fashions that supplied global brands, killed 112 workers. A year later, the eight-storey Rana Plaza building collapsed, killing 1,135 garment workers and triggering a wave of public outrage around the world about the human cost of cheap clothes.
