Deadly fire rips through Bangladesh shopping centre
Al Jazeera
At least 45 people were killed and dozens injured after a fire raged through a six-storey building in Dhaka.
At least 45 people have been killed and dozens of others wounded in a blaze at a six-story shopping mall in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, officials said on Friday.
The fire started late on Thursday at a restaurant on the first floor of the Green Cozy Cottage Shopping Mall in central Dhaka. Fire Service and Civil Defence Director General Brigadier General Md Main Uddin said more than a dozen firefighting units were deployed to douse the fire.
Health Minister Samanta Lal Sen said the toll could rise as at least 18 critically injured people were being treated in two state-run hospitals.
One survivor said people escaped by heading to the building’s roof.
“I knew about the fire when it was on 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, a survivor, said.
