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Bangladesh Blaze

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Bangladesh Blaze

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The massive blaze raged for three hours, destroying a row of multi-storey apartment buildings and trapping hundreds of residents in the city's densely populated Kayettuli area. -- PHOTO: AP


DHAKA - FIREFIGHTERS said at least 117 people were killed in a fire that razed a crowded, centuries-old Dhaka neighbourhood overnight as rescue workers pulled bodies, many charred beyond recognition, from smouldering debris. The blaze was the worst to sweep through the Bangladeshi capital in almost four decades.



 
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Firefighters and bystanders try to extinguish a large fire which has killed scores of people in a residential area of Dhaka, Bangladesh after an electric transformer exploded, igniting a three-storey apartment building.-- PHOTO: AP


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Locals and fire-fighters recover the body of a victim from the site of a fire in the old part of Dhaka. -- PHOTO: REUTERS


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Firefighters carried out victims from burnt houses. -- PHOTO: AFP



 
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Relatives of a victim of a fire mourn in the street of old part of Dhaka. -- PHOTO: AFP


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Residents react next to dead bodies in the street as the firefighters try to pulled out victims from burnt houses. -- PHOTO: AFP


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Bachhu (left) attends to his grandfather Moslem Khan, one of the survivors of the fire at the Medical College Hospital in Dhaka. -- PHOTO: REUTERS


 
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Shafique, 18, one of the survivors, lies on the floor at the Medical College Hospital in Dhaka. -- PHOTO: REUTERS


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Babita Barman, 23, one of the survivors, lies on the floor at the Medical College Hospital in Dhaka. -- PHOTO: REUTERS


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Chameli Sarker, 30, one of the survivors, is attended by a relative at the Medical College Hospital Dhaka. -- PHOTO: REUTERS


 
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Ripon (second left) and his sister Kakoli (left) mourn for the loss of six members in their family after their house was burnt down. -- PHOTO: REUTERS


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Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) stand guard at the site of the fire. -- PHOTO: REUTERS


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A view of the damaged buildings after the fire that razed a crowded Dhaka neighbourhood overnight, killing at least 100 people , and the toll is expected to rise as rescue workers pull more bodies out of smouldering debris. -- PHOTO: REUTERS


 
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