A BANGLADESH factory owner has been charged with murder after 52 people, including children, died in fire that broke out on Thursday and lasted for more than a day.

He was one of eight people arrested over the blaze at the Hashem Food and Beverage factory in Rupgani, 15 miles east of the capital Dhaka.

Forty-nine bodies had been pulled from the remains of the building today, while the other three confirmed fatalities were people who jumped from the burning factory.