Dozens killed as fireplace broke out at 7-storey constructing in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka. (Representational)
Dhaka:
Not less than 43 folks had been killed and dozens injured after a fireplace blazed by way of a seven-storey constructing in an upscale neighbourhood within the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka late Thursday, well being authorities mentioned.
“Up to now 43 folks have died from the hearth,” Bangladesh’s well being minister Samanta Lal Sen advised AFP after visiting the Dhaka Medical School Hospital and an adjoining burn hospital.
Sen mentioned not less than 40 injured folks had been being handled within the metropolis’s foremost burn hospital.
Fireplace division official Mohammad Shihab mentioned the blaze originated in a preferred biriyani restaurant in Dhaka’s Bailey Street at 9:50pm Thursday (1550 GMT), and shortly unfold to the higher flooring, trapping scores of individuals.
Firefighters introduced the blaze underneath management in two hours, he mentioned.
They rescued 75 folks alive, an announcement from the hearth service mentioned.
The Bailey Street constructing homes primarily eating places together with a number of clothes and cell phone retailers.
“We had been on the sixth ground once we first noticed smoke racing by way of the staircase. Lots of people rushed upstairs. We used a water pipe to climb down the constructing. A few of us had been injured as they jumped from upstairs,” mentioned a restaurant supervisor known as Sohel.
Others had been trapped on the rooftop and known as out for assist.
“Alhamdulillah. We’re sending down all girls and kids together with my spouse and kids. All of us males are in rooftop. Fireplace service stands beside us. Fifty but to be down,” wrote Kamruzzaman Majumdar, a professor of environmental science, in a Fb publish.
He was later rescued safely.
Fires in residence buildings and manufacturing facility complexes are widespread in Bangladesh as a consequence of lax enforcement of security guidelines.
In July 2021, not less than 52 folks had been killed together with many youngsters when a fireplace swept by way of a meals processing manufacturing facility.
In February 2019, 70 folks died when an inferno ripped by way of a number of Dhaka residence blocks.
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