DHAKA: At least 13 people were killed and more than a dozen injured on Saturday when a fire broke out in a plastic factory in Bangladesh's capital, emergency service officials said.

Police and fire officers believe the blaze started when gas cylinders exploded in the factory's boiler room, then raced through the four-storey Nasim Plastic factory in minutes.

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