AT LEAST FIVE people died after a huge fire tore through a Dhaka office block today, with many others feared trapped in the latest major inferno to hit the Bangladesh capital.
“Three people appear to have died after jumping from upper floors of the building,” United Hospital spokesman Sazzadur Rahman Shuvo told AFP. A military spokesman, Abdullah Ibne Zaid, said the body of a Sri Lankan man was brought to the army’s Kurmitola Hospital and another 45 people were being treated there. Another fatality was reported at the Dhaka Medical College hospital.Scores of firefighters were backed by navy and air force specialists, authorities said.Hundreds of panicked onlookers crowded the streets in the upmarket Banani commercial district.
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