{"id":309649,"date":"2019-02-21T04:58:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T04:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309649"},"modified":"2019-02-21T04:58:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T04:58:10","slug":"bangladesh-69-killed-as-fire-breaks-out-at-chemical-warehouse-in-dhaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/bangladesh-69-killed-as-fire-breaks-out-at-chemical-warehouse-in-dhaka\/","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh: 69 killed as fire breaks out at chemical warehouse in Dhaka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-309650 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/dhaka-fire-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/dhaka-fire-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/dhaka-fire.jpg 493w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 538px) 100vw, 538px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At least 69 people were killed as a fire on Wednesday night ripped through several buildings also used as chemical warehouses in Bangladesh\u2019s capital Dhaka.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The fire broke out around 10.40 pm at a chemical warehouse on the ground floor of a building in Old Dhaka\u2019s Chawkbazar area and the flames then quickly spread through four other buildings nearby, including a community centre, fire officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The death toll could rise further as dozens of people were trapped in the buildings and the firefighters were yet to enter into the main spot where the fire broke out, fire officials added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Over 50 injured people were being treated at Dhaka\u2019s two major state-run facilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Several people were injured after they jumped off the building that housed several families.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, the victims included passers-by, some people who were eating food at a restaurant and some members of a wedding party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Fire officials said, the fire might have originated from a gas cylinder before quickly spreading through the building where highly flammable chemicals were stored.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 69 people were killed as a fire on Wednesday night ripped through several buildings also used as chemical warehouses in Bangladesh\u2019s capital Dhaka. The fire broke out around 10.40 pm at a chemical warehouse on the ground floor of a building in Old Dhaka\u2019s Chawkbazar area and the flames then quickly spread through [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":309650,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[2267,10908,4244],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309651,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309649\/revisions\/309651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}