Container depot fire spotlights Bangladesh industrial safety

Military personnel and officials stand at the BM Inland Container Depot, where a fire broke out on Saturday in Chittagong (Al-emrun Garjon/AP)

Authorities in Bangladesh struggled on Monday to determine the cause of a fire that killed at least 41 people, including nine firefighters, and injured more than 100 others at a shipping container storage depot.

Efforts to fully extinguish the fire at the BM Inland Container Depot, a Dutch-Bangladesh joint venture near the country’s main Chittagong Seaport, continued on Monday after it broke out around midnight on Saturday following explosions in a container full of chemicals.