{"id":380,"date":"2010-06-04T16:46:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T16:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp3\/?p=380"},"modified":"2010-06-04T16:46:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T16:46:08","slug":"toll-rises-in-bangladesh-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunnionline.us\/english\/2010\/06\/04\/380\/","title":{"rendered":"Toll rises in Bangladesh fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; float: right;\" alt=\"bangladesh-fire\" src=\"images\/stories\/news\/bangladesh-fire.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"165\" \/>More than 118 people have been killed after a fire engulfed several buildings in the centre of Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, according to government officials.<\/div>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least 100 others were injured in the blaze, which broke out late on Thursday and burned for several hours before firefighters were able to bring it under control.<br \/>Nicholas Haque, Al Jazeera&#8217;s correspondent in Dhaka, described a &#8220;chaotic scene&#8221;.<br \/>&#8220;Hundreds, if not thousands of people are here looking for their loved ones. Police have cordoned off the area,&#8221; he said on Friday.<br \/>Abu Nayeem, the fire department chief, said the fire had been caused by an electrical fault and spread rapidly before firefighters could access the area.<br \/>Many of the victims were attending a wedding on the roof of one of the buildings.<br \/>&#8220;At least seven buildings have been engulfed by the fire. There were shops selling chemicals on the ground floor, which were caught by the fire as it spread very quickly,&#8221; he told the AFP news agency on Thursday.<br \/>&#8220;The temperature and fumes became unbearable because of the chemicals.&#8221;<br \/>Abu Nayeem said a bakery with several large gas burners had also caught fire.<br \/>&#8220;We struggled to get inside due to the narrow stairways of the very old buildings, it is almost impossible for us to get fire-fighting equipment into the area,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Response criticised<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Fire officials have been criticised for their slow response to the blaze.<br \/>&#8220;The fire raged for more than an hour before firefighters arrived,&#8221; our correspondent said.<br \/>&#8220;People are very angry.&#8221;<br \/>Shahidul Bari, a specialist at the burns unit, said that at least 100 people had been admitted with severe burns and smoke inhalation.<br \/>&#8220;Our unit is full and more patients are pouring in. It&#8217;s a disaster of huge proportions,&#8221; he said.<br \/>&#8220;Patients are being treated in the corridors and still more are coming in. We are sending the most critically ill to the hospital&#8217;s emergency units.&#8221;<br \/>Fires due to short-circuits, substandard wiring and electrical faults are common in Bangladesh, where building regulations are rarely enforced.<br \/>This blaze has been the deadliest fire in Bangladesh in the last 39 years.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Al Jazeera and agencies<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 118 people have been killed after a fire engulfed several buildings in the centre of Dhaka, the Bangladeshi capital, according to government officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c59-islamic-world"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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