This footage was filmed and produced 1 March 2024.

A huge fire that broke out in a multi-storey building in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka has killed at least 46 people and injured dozens of others.
According to local media, the blaze began in a restaurant in the seven-floor property at around 22:00 local time (16:00 GMT) on Thursday (29.02.2024).
Seventy-five people were rescued and dozens taken to hospital. The fire was brought under control after two hours.
The fire's cause is being investigated - firefighters blamed safety lapses.
A fire service official said the building did not have an emergency exit and cooking gas cylinders were kept in stairwells and restaurant kitchens.

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FILE NAME:
INTERVIEW-LOCATION-TWO 1.50 min
0.06 My name is Shamim Hasan. I am an Imam in the mosque segunbagicha.
0.14 I actually came here after having a snack as my brother called me.
0.30 I came here around 10.30 Pm . on that time fire service came and they were working
0.40 Here the road are narrow so it takes a while to come Fire Service
0.50 fire spread in such a way that we couldn’t watch.
0.58 as long as we were here no dead body came out. I was here till 1.30 PM. They bought the dead body after that, but I was not there.
1.15 on that time fire was under controlled and fire service go inside.
1.35 around 100 people came out alive but there were many people.
1.40 but we don’t know how many people inside and how many people were came out.

FILE NAME:
INTERVIEW-LOCATION-ONE 1.21 min

my name is yarab Hossain
0.4 I have the information.
0.8 Health Minister Confirmed 44 people Death.
0.10 and police, Rab, Fire Service jointly Rescued 75 People alive.
0.20 among them 22 were injured and in critical condition but there are many injured people.
0.28 around 10-12 people burned their Air tube/Trachea, and they are in critical condition as Health Minister informed.
0.38 and we talked with the house owner, he went to the ground floor and first floor, He said total Building was burnt out.
1.0 CID and Police were gathering information. They did not want to talk with us but gave us this information as we forced them.
1.07 Fire service still did not confirm the number.
1.18 unofficially Health Minister conformed 44 people’s Death.