{"id":37783,"date":"2019-03-28T10:23:25","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T10:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37783"},"modified":"2019-03-28T10:23:25","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T10:23:25","slug":"bangladesh-firefighters-battle-blaze-at-dhaka-skyscraper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37783","title":{"rendered":"Bangladesh firefighters battle blaze at Dhaka skyscraper"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"94.3588957055\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Fire crews rushed to the scene of a huge blaze that broke out in a 19-storey commercial building in Dhaka on Thursday,\u00a0<span>an emergency official said,<\/span> weeks after a <a class=\"InternalLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2019\/02\/huge-fire-kills-dozens-part-bangladesh-capital-dhaka-190221005122286.html\">deadly fire<\/a> in the Bangladeshi capital left at least 70 people dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;Nineteen fire-fighting units are working at the scene. Bangladesh navy and air force have also joined to fight the fire,&#8221; said Duty Officer Mohammad Russel from Dhaka&#8217;s central fire service control room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">There was no official word on casualties, but several people were believed to be trapped inside the tower in Banani area<span>\u00a0of the Bangladeshi capital<\/span>, according to The Daily Star news website.<\/p>\n<p>Helicopters dropped water on the burning building from above while hundreds of panicked onlookers crowded the streets in the upmarket commercial district of Banani.<\/p>\n<p>Images on social media showed intense flames and thick black smoke pouring out of the building.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Tanveer Chaudhry, reporting from Dhaka, said &#8220;at least six people have jumped off the building&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are 95 emergency services working and helicopters hovering above&#8230;. trying to rescue some people from the roof as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fire took place on the 9th floor of the building but we don&#8217;t know under what circumstances.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A massive blaze in Dhaka&#8217;s old quarter last month killed at least 70 people and injured 50 others.<\/p>\n<p>Fire service officials said a warehouse of deodorant and granular plastic in one of the five buildings that caught fire fuelled that inferno, which took more than 12 hours to control. <\/p>\n<p>The disaster recalled a June 2010 fire in the nearby neighbourhood of Nimtoli in which 123 people were killed.<\/p>\n<p>More soon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"32\">\n<p>\n            SOURCE:<br \/>\n            <span>Al Jazeera and news agencies<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fire crews rushed to the scene of a huge blaze that broke out in a 19-storey commercial building in Dhaka on Thursday,\u00a0an emergency official said, weeks after a deadly fire in the Bangladeshi capital left at least 70 people dead. &#8220;Nineteen fire-fighting units are working at the scene. Bangladesh navy and air force have also&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}