The fire quickly spread over the floor with a 1,800 square-metre fabric store. Some 200 firefighters were mobilised from several neighbouring provinces and HCM City who managed to stop the fire at 3 pm.

But the fire broke out again at around 5pm and was not controlled yet by 8 am today while the cause of it was still not clear.

Vo Thanh Hung, head of the management board of Can Tho Provincial Industrial Park and Export Processing Zone is calling for the local department of Labour, Invalid and Social Affairs to support the workers and local banks to provide preferential loans to the company. 

"The asset losses caused by this fire is estimated at USD6 million," Hung confirmed.

Kwong Lung - Meko specialises in feather processing and garment production.

Its factory covers about 17,000 square metres and has more than 1,300 workers in the Tra Noc Industrial Zone, about 15km from the centre of Can Tho City.