A spokesperson for the fire service in Dhaka, Khurshid Anwar, confirmed to the BBC Bangla at the 15-time Swedish time, that at least 19 people died in the fire in high-rise, the FR Tower. It was just before one o’clock in the afternoon that the fire broke out. According to the newspaper Dhaka Tribune it was only a little less than four hours later as firefighters went into the building to start fighting the fire.
the BBC, writes that the people inside the building have been seen to cry out for help through the building’s windows, and some must have jumped from the burning building.
– 19 fire fighting units are working on the site. The navy and the air force is also about to fight fire, ” says Mohammed Russel from Dhaka fire-fighting services to the AFP news agency.
Image 1 of 2 A fire has broken out in an office building in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photo: Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP Slide 2 of 2 the Building is located in Banani, one of Dhaka’s most exclusive areas. Photo: Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP Slide show
by the side of the fire is put out helps the military with helicopters to retrieve people from the höghusets ceiling, where ”many people are still stuck”, reports BBC Bangla at 13 o’clock.
Debashis Bardhan, spokesperson for civil protection, said at the 13-time Swedish time to the BBC Bangla that the military and the fire brigade received about one hundred people, but that he could not say how many people that is left inside of the building.
shows large flames and black smoke pouring out of the building, which is located in the more exclusive area of Banani. On the surrounding streets running people in panic.
Fires in densely-populated Bangladesh often requires many people’s lives. For more than a month ago killed at least 78 people in a fire in Dhaka’s historic quarter.
BBC Bangla, which liverapporterar with the help of a journalist on the spot, has not yet said if the fire managed to be extinguished.