A fire at a gas lighter factory near Bangladesh's capital kills 5 people

Authorities in Bangladesh say five people have died in a fire that broke out at a factory manufacturing gas lighters near Bangladesh’s capital. Officials said that the blaze broke out in Keraniganj near Dhaka on Saturday afternoon. Seven firefighting units were deployed to extinguish the blaze. It took several hours to bring it under control. Firefighters recovered five bodies by the evening and they couldn’t immediately be identified. The cause of the fire was under investigation.