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Saturday, November 24, 2012


FIRE KILLS GIRL CHILD IN PANCHTHAR Kathmandu, 25 Nov.: A girl child was killed in a fire Saturday night at Chyangthapu bazaar in Panchthar district in the East. At least a dozen houses were destroyed and initial damage is estimated at Rs.70 million. Nnnn DEUBA SAYS HE’S NOT HANKERING AT PM JOB. Kathmandu, 25 Nov.: Nepali Congress (NC) senior leader Sher Bahadur Deuba has said that he has no greed for the Prime Ministerial berth, RSS reports. At a new conference held in Dadeldhura on the way to his trip to far-western region on Sunday morning, former Prime Minister Deuba further said there would be no dispute in the party to choose a Prime Ministerial candidate if consensus was made to form NC-led government. ´I am not greedy for Prime Ministerial post. The party would have no dispute while picking a candidate for this´, leader Deuba added. The President´s call for forming a national consensus government was positive, he said, stressing that the government leadership should be given to the NC at this stage. He ruled out any chance of forming national consensus government under the UCPN (Maoist) leadership. Nnnn BANGLADESH GARMENT FACTORY FIRE KILLS AT 121 WORKERS Kathmandu, 25 Nov.: The death toll from a fire at a Bangladeshi factory soared to at least 121 as rescue workers recovered 112 bodies Sunday, the national fire chief told AFP in Dhaka.. "We´ve found 112 dead bodies this morning," fire brigade director general Brigadier General Abu Nayeem Mohammad Shahidullah told AFP. "We resumed our search this morning and found the bodies lying on different floors of the factory building," he said. 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. Kamal said many workers jumped from the factory´s upper floors to escape the flames before firefighters arrived to put the blaze out. 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. Nnnn

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