At least 43 people died in a fire in a multi-storey commercial building in the Bailey Road area of ??Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh.

According to the Dhaka Tribune, the fire department rescued about 70 people, 42 of them unconscious, who were on the roof and in other spaces of the seven-story building.

According to the first reports, the fire started in one of the restaurants on the first floor around 9:45 p.m. local time on Thursday (15:45 GMT) and many of the affected people were in the restaurants when the fire spread to others. floors.