Firefighters work to include a fire that broke out at a business advanced in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Thursday.
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Firefighters work to include a fire that broke out at a business advanced in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Thursday.
Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP
DHAKA, Bangladesh — A fire at a six-story shopping mall in the Bangladeshi capital in a single day killed at least 43 people and injured dozens of others, with a number of people escaping to the constructing’s roof, officers mentioned Friday.
The fire began late Thursday at a restaurant on the primary flooring of the Green Cozy Cottage Shopping Mall in downtown Dhaka. Fire Service and Civil Defense Director General Brig. Gen. Md. Main Uddin mentioned greater than a dozen firefighting models had been deployed to douse the fire.
Firefighters rescued survivors and pulled out our bodies, and by early Friday, at least 43 people died. Health Minister Samanta Lal Sen mentioned the toll might rise as at least 18 critically injured people had been being handled in two state-run hospitals.
One survivor mentioned people escaped by heading to the constructing’s roof.
“I knew about the fire when it was at the first floor. We moved to the roof of the building. Around 30 people were there. After the fire was under control, fire service personnel broke into one side of the roof and rescued us,” Mohammed Siam mentioned.
Thirty-eight victims have been recognized and 26 of the our bodies have been handed to their households, mentioned Bacchu Mia, who’s in cost of a police outpost at Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
“Overnight many families waited here for their loved ones. It’s a heartbreaking scene as they desperately looked for their family members who died in the tragedy,” Mia mentioned.
A fire division staff entered the charred constructing in the morning to see if there have been extra our bodies, and forensic specialists started in search of proof in the investigation of the fire. The explanation for the fire has not been decided.