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		</div><p>A fire has broken out in a high-rise office building in Bangladesh’s capital and some people were feared trapped inside, witnesses and an official have said.</p>
<p>Fire Department control room official Ershad Hossain said at least 19 firefighting units were working to douse the blaze and rescue people inside the FR Tower, located on a busy avenue in Dhaka’s Banani commercial district.</p>
<p>There was no immediate confirmation of casualties, but video showed at least one person falling from the building, apparently while trying to escape the fire.</p>
<p>Military helicopters joined the rescue operation, and one person dangled from a helicopter hovering over the roof as thick plumes of smoke cascaded upward.</p>
<figure id="attachment_128913" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-128913" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/3E7A3201-37FE-49FA-834D-EE68F60A0709.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-128913" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/3E7A3201-37FE-49FA-834D-EE68F60A0709.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="395" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-128913" class="wp-caption-text">Firefighters work to douse a fire in a multi-storey office building in Dhaka</figcaption></figure>
<p>Firefighters on hydraulic lifts trained two hoses on the building.</p>
<p>Witness Sajib Hasan said some people shouted for help from windows on the upper floors of the building.</p>
<p>Heavy smoke deterred efforts by emergency personnel to get close to them, but Mr Hasan said he watched at least a dozen people get rescued.</p>
<p>Banani, the area where the fire broke out, is a busy commercial district with multi-storey buildings housing offices, universities and restaurants.</p>
<figure id="attachment_128914" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-128914" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/94183DFF-724A-4E34-BF6F-CEEACA0C5F79.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-128914" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/94183DFF-724A-4E34-BF6F-CEEACA0C5F79.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-128914" class="wp-caption-text">A Bangladeshi, stuck in an office building on fire, speaks on his mobile phone</figcaption></figure>
<p>Tushar-or-Rashid, an employee of the Vivid Holidays tour company on the building’s first floor, said the fire began above them.</p>
<p>“All of our staff have come out safely but we don’t know what happened to the people who work in the upper floors,” he said.</p>
<p>Mr Rashid said the building has 21 floors.</p>
<p>Fires are common in Bangladesh, where building regulations and safety norms are often violated.</p>
<figure id="attachment_128915" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-128915" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/174BCFD1-0604-4054-A299-07E86C4434E2.jpeg"><img class="size-full wp-image-128915" src="https://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/174BCFD1-0604-4054-A299-07E86C4434E2.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="400" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-128915" class="wp-caption-text">Locals help firefighters douse the fire</figcaption></figure>
<p>Last month, a fire in the oldest part of Dhaka, a 400-year-old area cramped with apartments, shops and warehouses, left at least 67 people dead.</p>
<p>In 2012, a fire raced through a garment factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, killing at least 112 people trapped behind its locked gates.</p>
<p>Less than six months later, another building containing garment factories collapsed, killing more than 1,100 people.</p>
<p>Another fire in a house illegally storing chemicals in Old Dhaka killed at least 123 people in 2010.</p>
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