News / Chittagong port clearing containers of chemicals as depot fire rages

BM Container Depot Inland Depot near Chittagong. Credit munware alam nirjhor.

Devastation at the BM Container Depot in Chittagong, following a container fire which is still burning some 46 hours later, has been blamed on the presence of chemical containers that were supposed to be shipped soon.

On 6 June some containers were still burning fiercely and were pouring smoke into the atmosphere at the Sitakunda, Chittagong, inland facility, 40km north of the port, where the fire broke out on Saturday night. Several subsequent blasts reportedly killed at least 49 people, eight ...