44 dead in Bailey Road building fire Bangladesh

                                                    

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At least 44 people were killed, and over 20 others sustained severe injuries by a devastating fire on Thursday night, which engulfed a commercial building in the capital’s Baily Road area that housed 

several restaurants. Firefighters rescued 70 people, including 42 in unconscious state, from the rooftop and different floors of the seven-story Green Cozy Cottage.

Health Minister Dr Samanta Lal Sen, Dhaka-8 lawmaker AFM Bahauddin Nasim, and senior officials of different law enforcement agencies visited the spot. Addressing the media at 2am, Dr Sen reported 33 deceased bodies at Dhaka Medical College Hospital, with an additional 10 fatalities at the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery. Subsequently, the Inspector General of Police confirmed another death at the Central Police Hospital.

IGP Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun held the press briefing at 2.40am in front of DMC, announcing that 44 people had died and 75 had been rescued. Some of the rescued individuals received first aid treatment before returning home safely. Most of the people died as they jumped off the building or from burns or suffocation, said firefighters who brought the fire under control around 12.30am. Smoke was still brewing from the building at that time. The first death was reported around 1am when the firefighters took the bodies one by one to a freezing truck waiting outside the building.

The fire broke out at the restaurant named “Kacchi Bhai” on the first floor around 9.45pm. Many people were dining in the restaurants when the fire spread to other floors. Thirteen units of Fire Service were working to bring the blaze under control. Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB), Rapid Action Battalion (RAB), General Ansar and Ansar Guard Battalion (AGB) were deployed on the spot. 

Fire officials say the blaze spread fast due to the presence of gas cylinders on several floors in the restaurant kitchens. People could not leave the building due to smoke in the staircase. 

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The dead persons include Mubarak’s wife Swapna Akhter, daughters Syeda Tuz Zohra (19) and Amina Akhter (13) and son Abdullah (8).

Relatives had gathered around the body of Mubarak’s daughter Amina at the Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute. Ayesha Akhter, cousin of Mubarak’s wife Swapna Akhter, said that four of the bodies were at the Dhaka Medical morgue and one at the burn hospital. They would all be buried at their village home in Shahbazpur, Brahmanbaria. They owned a flat at Modhubagh in Dhaka.

Ayesha Akhter said, there was no one surviving in their family, all five had died. Mubarak was due to leave within a few days and that’s why they had all gone out to dinner. One of the daughter’s SSC exams were on. Their visas were being processed so they could all go to Italy.At least 43 persons have died in the fire at the multi-storey building in Bailey Road. Another 22 are seriously injured. It is feared that the death count will increase. The building caught on fire at around 9:45pm Thursday night. After the fire was extinguished, the victims were recovered and taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital and Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute.

The fire took place at a seven-storey building on Bailey Road Thursday night. There is an eatery ‘Kachchi Bhai’ on the second floor of the building. There are other food outlets on other floors of the building and a clothes store on the third floor. The eateries throng with customers every evening. It was a popular place for families to eat out too.   Read More