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2024 Dhaka Bailey Road Fire
On the night of 29 February 2024, a fire broke out in a seven-storey shopping mall located in the New Bailey Road, Dhaka, Bailey Road of Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 46 people. Background Fires in Bangladesh are a common occurrence, with a dense population and new buildings which at times lack safety measures, causing many fires and explosions due to faulty gas cylinders, electrical wiring and air conditioners. A Rupganj factory fire, fire at a food processing plant in 2021 killed 54 people, at least 70 were killed in another fire in 2019, and 2012 Dhaka garment factory fire, a garment factory fire killed at least 117 people in 2012. Fire The fire started at 21:50 Bangladesh Standard Time, BST in the Kacchi Bhai biryani restaurant on the first floor of the Green Cozy Cottage Shopping Mall on Bailey Road, Dhaka, Bailey Road and quickly spread to other floors, trapping dozens inside. The building mainly contained restaurants, along with some clothing and mobile phone shops. Fire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Bangladesh (}, ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, eighth-most populous country in the world, with a population exceeding 165 million people in an area of . Bangladesh is among the List of countries and dependencies by population density, most densely populated countries in the world, and shares land borders with India to the west, north, and east, and Myanmar to the southeast; to the south it has a coastline along the Bay of Bengal. It is narrowly separated from Bhutan and Nepal by the Siliguri Corridor; and from China by the Indian state of Sikkim in the north. Dhaka, the capital and list of cities and towns in Bangladesh, largest city, is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. Chittagong, the second-largest city, is the busiest port on the Bay of Bengal. The official language is Bengali language, Bengali, one of the easternmost branches of the Indo-Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
