Nine firefighters were killed, in the line of duty

• Officials believe greater safeguards might have been taken if they had realised the depot was used to store chemicals.
• And family members are mourning the fatalities.
• Shakil Tarafder’s last phone contact was to his mother, Jasmine Begum.

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Nine firefighters were killed, in the line of duty

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“Pray for me,” he hurriedly shouted before joining his fireman colleagues in putting out a major fire at a container depot in Sitakunda; near Bangladesh’s largest port city of Chittagong, late Saturday night. According to the Fire Service and Civil Defence (FSCD) agency, Shakil was one of nine firefighters killed in the disaster; the biggest such toll in a single incident in Bangladesh’s history.