At least 23 killed in Bangladesh factory fire

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At least 25people are killed and injuring dozens when a boiler exploded and triggered a fire at a packaging factory near Bangladesh's capital on Saturday officials said. Several bodies were recovered from the five-story Tampaco Foils Ltd. factory in the Tongi industrial area outside Dhaka, fire official Mohammed Rafiquzzaman said. Mohammed Parvez, a doctor at Tongi Hospital, said 17 dead bodies were in the hospital's mortuary and four were at the state-run Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

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