Daily News Channel
Bangladeshi authorities found seven bodies in the charred remains of a massive shopping complex that caught fire Friday afternoon. Along with the seven deaths, 15 people were injured, said Mahabubor Rahman, deputy commissioner of police.
Thousands of shoppers rushed out of a crowded high-rise shopping complex in Bangladesh’s capital city on Friday when a fire broke out in the building’s top floors, a police official said. At least one person died, and 20 others are being treated at a nearby hospital for injuries sustained in the fire and the rush to leave the building, a Shamarita hospital official said. Rescue teams are searching for shoppers who may be trapped inside the nearly 20-story-high Bashundhara City shopping complex in Dhaka, police commissioner Mehabubor Rahman told CNN