The death toll rose to seven Sunday in the latest fire at a garment factory in Dhaka as officials and labour groups were investigating. The factory had no fire safety certificate, Mahbubur Rahman, said director of Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence department, after a preliminary investigation. The factory in the first floor of a three-storey building also lacked fire safety equipment, he said. The garment industry accounts for nearly 79 per cent of Bangladesh's US$24 billion in export earnings. Most of its products go to Europe and the United States, according to a report of DPA.
