Dhaka , Bangladesh ( CNN ) -- Seven female workers were killed Saturday afternoon in yet another fire at a clothing factory in Bangladesh 's capital , police said . `` We have found seven bodies of workers who died either in a stampede or ( after ) jumping from the second floor of the factory as a fire broke out , '' Chowdhury Monzurul Kabir , a deputy commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police , told CNN . Read more : Panel calls Bangladesh factory fire sabotage . More than a dozen other workers were hospitalized after being injured in the incident , according to police . Police and witnesses said the fire broke out at Smart Fashions Limited at Mohammadpur , located in the inland city of Dhaka , and it quickly spread to a second floor where several hundred people , mostly women , were working . As the flames spread , panicked workers tried to head downstairs and outside to safety . But those that did get down found a door locked on the first floor , according to workers who escaped . `` There was no fire alarm in the factory , and everybody rushed to get out of the two-story building as some workers shouted they saw flames on the second floor , '' said Rezina Begum , one of those employees who suffered injuries . Saturday 's fire comes two months after the country 's worst clothing factory fire that killed 112 people at Tazreen Fashions Limited on the outskirts of Dhaka . It also coincides with a visit to the Bangladeshi capital by a U.S. congressional delegation aiming to assess the safety of clothing factories in the South Asian nation . Read more : Bangladesh prime minister alleges arson in deadly factory fire . The Smart Fashions Limited factory employed more than 300 workers and did not have proper fire safety measures , according to a fire service and civil defense official . `` The factory is illegally built , and there was no fire exit , '' Mahbubur Rahman , the fire service and civil defense director , told reporters . Police said they are trying to track down the factory 's owner . `` We 've launched an investigation , and certainly we 'll bring the perpetrators to justice , '' said Kabir . Bangladeshi-made garments make up 80 % of the nation 's $ 24 billion in annual exports . The country has about 4,500 garment factories , where workers make clothes for brands including Tesco , Wal-Mart , JC Penney , Kohl 's and Carrefour . The sector earned $ 19 billion in the last financial year , which ended in June 2012 .
7 women die after a fire breaks out inside a garment factory in Dhaka , police say . The building did not have a fire alarm and its exit door was locked , a witness says . In November , 112 people died after a fire at another factory in Bangladesh .