A fire that broke out at a building in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, has killed at least 69 people, fire officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mahfuz Riben, an official of the Fire Service and Civil Defense in Dhaka, told The Associated Press that the death toll had risen to 69 and that many had been trapped in buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMany of the recovered bodies are beyond recognition,\u201d he said. \u201cOur people are using body bags to send them to the hospital morgue \u2014 this is a very difficult situation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The fire broke out Wednesday night in a building the city\u2019s Chawkbazar area, a centuries-old neighborhood with many mixed-use structures. The Dhaka Tribune reported that the building where the fire broke out housed a plastics warehouse and was full of flammable material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\nBangladesh was also the site of a devastating fire in 2012, when a blaze ripped through the Tazreen Fashions factory<\/a> outside Dhaka, killing 112 people. That blaze and its high death toll focused attention on the unsafe work conditions and low wages at many garment factories in the country.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A fire that broke out at a building in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, has killed at least 69 people, fire officials said Thursday. Mahfuz Riben, an official of the Fire Service and Civil Defense in Dhaka, told The Associated Press that the death toll had risen to 69 and that many had been trapped in buildings. \u201cMany of the… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3097,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions\/3097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}