Huge fire engulfs market in Bangladeshi capital

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DHAKA: Hundreds of Bangladeshi firefighters were mobilised in the capital Dhaka on Tuesday (Apr 4) to battle an inferno that raged through a popular clothing market and blanketed the city's oldest neighbourhoods in black smoke. No casualties have been reported so far, but shop owners and fire officials tol

DHAKA: Hundreds of Bangladeshi firefighters were mobilised in the capital Dhaka on Tuesday to battle an inferno that raged through a popular clothing market and blanketed the city's oldest neighbourhoods in black smoke.

"Some 600 firefighters ... are working to bring the fire under control," fire department spokesman Rakibul Islam told AFP, adding that the blaze began around dawn.

 

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