Bangladesh Fire Service deployed fire-fighting robots for the first time to extinguish the Sitakunda fire.
The death toll from the fire and subsequent explosions at BM Container Depot in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila has risen to 44, with 12 of the victims being fire service personnel.
As we watched the events of Neemtoli and Chawkbazar unfold in front of our eyes, it seems nothing has changed aswe move on with our lives. There are numerous factories and warehouses in almost every building in Old Dhaka.
A fire breaks out at Salauddin Specialized Hospital Ltd in Dhaka's Wari area.
Amid outcries over the death of 26 people in Thursday's Banani inferno, a massive fire swept through the Gulshan-1 DNCC kitchen market burning down over 200 shops yesterday.
Another devastating fire at the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) kitchen market early yesterday thrashed the efforts of 248 shop owners who were already struggling to revive their businesses from a similar disaster just two years ago.
Around 211 tin-shed business establishments are completely razed in the fire that ripped through the Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) kitchen market in Gulshan-1.
At least 25 people were killed and some 70 injured in Thursday's deadly fire that ripped through the 22-storey FR Tower in Dhaka's Banani area. All the bodies were handed over to the families and most of them buried yesterday.
The transmission of a private television channel Duronto TV and a radio channel Radio Today has been offline since a fire broke out at FR Tower in Dhaka’s Banani area.
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Kazi Reazul Hoque today said an investigation should be conducted to find out whether the Chawkbazar fire had been caused due to negligence by those responsible for oversee people’s safety.
Minister of Disaster Management and Relief Dr Md Enamur Rahman hands over Tk 30 lakh to the victims of Old Dhaka fire as part of the government compensation move.
The bustle and fuss around the chaotic Chawkbazar were dimming down to give way to the silence of street lamps, a few rickshaws clinking by and the bark of stray dogs. It was the usual late-night stroll back home for Dipu, except for that it wasn't.
Fire Service and Civil Defence has formed a three-member committee to investigate the deadly fire in Old Dhaka that left at least 70 people dead and scores injured.
Helicopters have been used to spray water and douse the fire that sparked at Chawkbazar last night that has claimed at least 70 lives so far.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina orders the authorities concerned to provide proper treatment to the injured people and necessary support to the families of those killed in the fire incident at Chawkbazar in Old Dhaka.
The work for relocation of chemical warehouse from old town should start right now, Inspector General of Police Javed Patwary has said while visiting Chawkbazar area of Old Dhaka where fire killed at least 70 people.
Hundreds of people are rushing to Dhaka Medical College morgue to identify their near and dear ones as the bodies of at least 67 Chawkbazar chemical warehouse victims have been taken to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital.
The death toll from the fire at a chemical warehouse in Chawkbazar area of Old Dhaka jumps to 70, says Fire Service and Civil Defence.
More than eight years after the devastating fire in Old Dhaka's Nimtoli that killed 123 people, chemical warehouses, considered prime fire hazards, are still being run in the old parts of the city, due to lack of proper action by authorities concerned.
