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Ship-breaking yard fire injures four workers

12 July 2010, 18:00 PM

METROPOLITAN

Staff Correspondent, Ctg

Four workers of a ship-breaking yard sustained burn injuries when a fire broke out in an oil tank of a scrapped ship at Bara Awlia in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong on Monday. The injured Kafil, Alim, Liton and Kamal were admitted to the Burn Unit of Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH). The fire broke out while the workers of Sultana Ship-breaking Yard, owned by Adnan Hossain, were cutting the oil-tank around 11:30am, said Officer-in-Charge Noor Mohammad of Sitakunda Police Station.