The owner of a Bangladesh factory has been charged with killing 52 people in a fire in the fire | News in Bangladesh

Seven others have been detained in a fire at a food rack, where they are said to be violating security regulations.

Police in Bangladesh have arrested a factory owner who killed at least 52 people in a massive fire, as it turned out that 11-year-olds were working there.

The four children of the owners were also among eight people arrested on Saturday in connection with a fire that broke out on Thursday and raged for a day. Some research has been done on child labor in the area.

Al Jazeera said 49 bodies have been recovered from a Hashem Food and Beverage factory in Rupganj, a factory town 25km (15 miles) east of the capital, Dhaka. Three people also died after jumping out of the house.

The victims were rushed to the ambulance station and taken to the concentration camp with tears streaming down their faces.

Jayedul Alam, the police chief in Narayanganj district where the factory is located, said the door was locked during the fire and the factory violated several fire and safety regulations.

“This was a deliberate killing,” the police chief told AFP.

A fire spokesman said the open fire on the main stairs had not been closed. Flammable materials and plastics had been stored in the house.

Al Jazeera’s Tanvir Chowdhury, speaking outside a factory in Rupganj, said authorities had moved quickly, saying it took “several days or several weeks” before arrest.

“Rupganj police have charged them with murder,” Chowdhury said of the inmates.

Officials say the rescue operation is over. However, Chowdhury said, some workers are still missing, according to their relatives.

Meanwhile, Monnujan Sufian, Minister of Public Works, said the questions were being addressed by children working in the factory.

Sufian told AFP that he spoke to the hospital with two survivors of the age of 14. A woman said her 11-year-old nephew was working in the factory and had disappeared.

Nazma Akter, founder and executive director of the Awaj Foundation for rights rights, told Al Jazeera that neglect of security was common in Bangladeshi factories – and that children in particular suffered from insecurity.

“It is sad and tragic that so many children have also died in the fire,” Akter said.

“We have [a] law, if there is a youth or child worker, [it should be] working five hours, three hours training but… working as adults – 10 to 12 hours, seven days a week, ”he added.

No one cares about employee life and safety. ”

Bangladesh promised change after the Rana Plaza accident in 2013 when nine houses collapsed and killed more than 1,100 people.

But there have been many fires and other disasters since then. In February 2019, at least 70 people died after a fire broke out in a house in Dhaka where drugs were stored illegally.