People were being rescued by the emergency services from the burned seven-storey building in Dhaka. Photo: Suvra Kanti Das/EPA, via Shutterstock.
At least 44 people were killed and dozens injured when the deadly fire broke out in a shopping mall before 10 pm on Thursday in the capital of Bangladeshi, Dhaka officials said.
Bachchu Mia, a police inspector at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital, where several victims were being treated, said that 27 of the 44 dead had been identified and that their bodies had been handed over to their families.
“Most of them died of suffocation, not burning,” he said. He added that it was easier to identify those that suffocate.
Also, it was reported by the fire officials that at least 75 people were injured. Some were being treated at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, it was said.
The fire erupted at about 9:51 p.m. on the mall’s second floor, which features a popular biryani restaurant. It quickly spread to the rest of the seven-story building, fire officials said, ripping through a clothing store on the third floor.
It took crews at least two hours to put the fire out, officials said. Photo: Suvra Kanti Das/EPA, via Shutterstock
The video circulating showed survivors being lowered onto a ladder as a crush of emergency workers, media and onlookers waited to receive them on the street below.
The shopping mall, on Bailey Road is known for a mixture of eateries and stores. Almost every floor has a restaurant and most have gas cylinders, a fire official told a television news reporter.
It was unclear what caused the fire but the report said that the cylinders may have played a role in the fire spreading so quickly.
The mall is said to be a popular spot as the workweek ends on Thursdays in Bangladesh.
Industrial fire disasters are peculiar mostly in garment factories in Bangladesh. The worst of the disasters happened in 2013 when the collapse of an eight-story garment factory killed more than 1,100 people. And in 2021, a factory fire in the city of Narayanganj killed at least 51 people.
孟加拉達卡一家購物中心發生火災，造成至少 44 人死亡
孟加拉首都達卡官員稱，週四晚上 10 點前，孟加拉首都達卡一家購物中心發生致命火災，造成至少 44 人死亡、數十人受傷。
達卡醫學院和醫院的警察督察巴楚·米亞（Bachchu Mia）正在那裡治療幾名受害者，他說，44 名死者中有27 人的身份已得到確認，他們的屍體已移交給他們的家人。
消防官員稱，至少 75 人受傷。 據稱，有些人正在達卡醫學院醫院接受治療。
火災於晚上9時51分左右爆發。 位於購物中心的二樓，設有頗受歡迎的 Biryani 餐廳。 消防官員說，火勢迅速蔓延到七層樓建築的其餘部分，燒毀了三樓的服裝店。
官員稱，工作人員至少花了兩個小時才把火撲滅。
流傳的影片顯示，倖存者被放到梯子上，而下面的街道上擠滿了急救人員、媒體和旁觀者等待迎接他們。
位於貝利路 (Bailey Road) 的購物中心以餐廳和商店林立而聞名。 一名消防官員告訴電視新聞記者，幾乎每層樓都有一家餐廳，大多數都有氣瓶。
目前尚不清楚起火原因，但報告稱，鋼瓶可能是火勢迅速蔓延的原因之一。
據說，孟加拉的工作週於週四結束，因此該購物中心很受歡迎。
工業火災在孟加拉的服裝廠尤為突出。 最嚴重的災難發生在 2013 年，當時一座八層樓高的服裝廠倒塌，造成 1,100 多人死亡。 2021 年，納拉揚甘吉市的一場工廠火災導致至少 51 人死亡。
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