{"id":53125,"date":"2023-03-05T05:52:21","date_gmt":"2023-03-04T20:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/04\/bangladesh-at-least-six-people-killed-in-fire-after-explosion-at-oxygen-plant"},"modified":"2023-03-05T05:52:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T20:52:21","slug":"bangladesh-at-least-six-people-killed-in-fire-after-explosion-at-oxygen-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=53125","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh: at least six people killed in fire after explosion at oxygen plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials say death toll could rise as rescue operation continues in southeastern town of Sitakunda<\/p>\n<p>At least six people were killed and several injured on Saturday when a fire broke out after an explosion at an oxygen plant in southeastern Bangladesh, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The death toll could rise as a rescue operation was ongoing at the plant at Sitakunda, 40km (25 miles) from the southeastern port city of Chittagong, they added.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/mar\/04\/bangladesh-at-least-six-people-killed-in-fire-after-explosion-at-oxygen-plant\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials say death toll could rise as rescue operation continues in southeastern town of SitakundaAt least six people were killed and several injured on Saturday when a fire broke out after an explosion at an oxygen plant in southeastern Bangladesh, o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[327,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53129,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53125\/revisions\/53129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}