At least 43 dead and 20 injured in fire at commercial building in Bangladesh
At least 43 people have died in a fire in a multi-storey commercial building in the Bailey Road area of Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.
According to the Dhaka Tribune, the fire department has rescued about 70 people, 42 of them unconscious, who were on the roof and in other spaces of the seven-story building.
According to the first reports, the fire started in one of the restaurants on the first floor around 9:45 p.m. local time on Thursday and many of the affected people were in the restaurants when the fire spread to other floors.
A #fire broke out at a commercial #building housing multiple restaurants including #Kacchi Bhai at around 9:50pm at #Bailey_Road in Dhaka. pic.twitter.com/OIXDT2H5Vp
— The Business Standard (@tbsnewsbd) February 29, 2024
The Minister of Health of the Asian country, Samanta Lal Sen, has told the media that 33 bodies of the deceased were in the facilities of the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, while the remaining 10 confirmed so far were at the headquarters of the Institute. Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery.
Another similar fire affected the center of the Bangladeshi capital on March 7, 2023, when an explosion occurred in a building that left fifteen people dead and another 39 injured.
In that same month last year, three more people lost their lives and forty were injured after a fire at a construction site in Dhaka itself.