{"id":235043,"date":"2026-04-04T15:05:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/235043\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T15:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T15:05:22","slug":"fire-at-a-gas-lighter-factory-near-bangladeshs-capital-kills-5-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/235043\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at a gas lighter factory near Bangladesh&#8217;s capital kills 5 people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) \u2014 A fire broke out at a factory manufacturing gas lighters near Bangladesh\u2019s capital on Saturday, leaving at least five people dead, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze broke out in the Kadamtali area of Keraniganj near Dhaka, according to the fire service and civil defense.<\/p>\n<p>Seven firefighting units were deployed to extinguish the blaze, which started in the afternoon, the fire department said. It took several hours to bring it under control.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters recovered five bodies by the evening and they couldn&#8217;t immediately be identified.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the fire was under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) \u2014 A fire broke out at a factory manufacturing gas lighters near Bangladesh\u2019s capital on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[86164,90709,23681,59373,84874,59371,84875,86165,61262,82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-235043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-bangladesh","9":"tag-bangladesh-gas-lighter-factory-fire","10":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","11":"tag-package-100373-mc-complete-state-national","12":"tag-product-30597-ap-business-news-f-wire","13":"tag-product-30598-ap-national-news-report-a-wire","14":"tag-product-31995-ap-online-general-financial-business-news","15":"tag-product-31997-ap-online-asia-news","16":"tag-product-46986-ap-online-top-stories","17":"tag-san-antonio","18":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","19":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}