20190322 Panicked residents rush to safety as Dhaka high-rise catches fire
Bangladesh Mar 22 2019 “Building”
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Panicked residents rush to safety as Dhaka high-rise catches fire
Updated: 2019-03-22
A high-rise block of Biswas Builders at Dhaka’s New Market area has burst into flames.
Panicked residents scrambled to safety when the fire broke out in the 22-storey building around 10:50pm on Friday, a witness said.
Several units of firefighters doused the fire after around an hour, New Market police Station OC Atiqul Islam told bdnews24.com.
No casualties have been reported immediately.
The fire broke out in a computer shop on the third floor of the building and then spread to two more shops, the OC said.
The lower floors of the building house shops and warehouses of goods for the New Market shops.
The upper part has residential apartments.
Iqbal Mahmud Bablu, publicity secretary of Bangladesh Awami Jubo League, said he was in an office room on the ground floor of the building during the incident.“Suddenly the lights went off and the building got covered by smoke. Many panicked people left the building then,” he told bdnews24.com.
Wbe source:
The Nation
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