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Title: Bangladesh official: Deadly factory fire was arson
Post by: NewsCaster on Nov 27, 2012, 03:30 PM
(http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/121127-bangla-protest-5a.photoblog600.jpg)Abir Abdullah / EPAGarment workers shout slogans as they attend a procession on Tuesday to mourn victims of the Tazreen Fashions factory fire.By NBC News staff and wire reportsA deadly factory fire that killed at least 111 textile workers was sabotage, Bangladesh authorities said Tuesday, as protesters took to the streets for a second day and garment factories across the world's second biggest clothes exporter stopped work to mourn the dead.

The country's worst-ever industrial blaze (http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/24/15420144-fire-sweeps-clothing-factory-in-bangladesh-more-than-100-killed?lite#) broke out on Saturday and consumed the multi-story Tazreen Fashions factory building. More than 150 workers were injured.

Follow @NBCNewsWorld (http://twitter.com/NBCNewsWorld) The interior minister, Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, said according to a preliminary inquiry, the fire was the result of arson.

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