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43 dead, several others injured as fire guts building in Dhaka

Voice Air Media, VAM News Update

A fire at a seven-storey building in an upscale neighbourhood in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka killed at least 43 people and injured dozens more late on Thursday, health authorities said.

“So far 43 people have died from the fire,” Bangladesh’s Health Minister Samanta Lal Sen told AFP after visiting the Dhaka Medical College Hospital and an adjoining burns hospital.

Mr Sen said at least 40 injured people were being treated in the city’s main burns hospital.

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