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Two die in Dhaka building blaze | |
(3 days later) | |
At least two people have been killed and more than 50 injured after fire swept through a multi-storey building in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. | |
Firefighters put the blaze out after a dramatic four-hour battle. Scores of people were winched to safety from the tower blocks by helicopter. | |
Hundreds more were rescued by fire crews. At least one person died after jumping to escape flames, reports said. | |
It is not clear what caused the blaze in Dhaka's Kawranbazar district. | |
'Like hell' | |
More than 2,000 people usually work in the office tower, which houses two television channels and a newspaper owned by a politician. | |
Television footage showed dozens of office workers on the rooftop waiting for air force helicopters to take them to safety. | |
One woman died when she jumped from her office window to escape the flames and another worker died in hospital, reports say. | |
"About 60 of us were working on the sixth floor and all of a sudden we saw smoke all over our floor," cameraman Jashim Uddin told AFP news agency. | |
"We ran to the balconies and cried for help. It was like hell." | |
The building is owned by the Bangladesh Steel and Engineering Corporation. | |
The biggest private TV station in Bangladesh, NTV, is based in the building together with RTV and the daily Bengali newspaper, Amar Desh. | |
They are all owned by former MP Mosaddek Ali Falu, a close ally of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia. |
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