DHAKA: The death toll from a fire at a Bangladeshi factory was lowered from 121 to 104 on Sunday, the operations director of the fire brigade told AFP.
"There were some double counting as different fire teams were working on different floors," Major Mahbub, who uses only one name, said.
"But now we have a total of 104 dead bodies including several who jumped to their death. Most bodies were found on the second floor. Most died of suffocation."
The fire broke out in the ground-floor warehouse of the multi-storey Tazreen Fashion factory 30 kilometres (18 miles) north of Dhaka on Saturday evening, trapping hundreds of workers on the upper floors, police said.
Police inspector Mostofa Kamal had previously told AFP that nine workers died and about 100 workers were injured.
The cause was not immediately known but fires as a result of short circuits and shoddy electrical wiring are common in Bangladeshi garment plants, which use cheap labour to produce clothes shipped to Western countries.
- AFP/ck
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