"The rescue team was [initially] not able to bring in equipment and vehicles due to the crowd, resulting in losing valuable time when the fire started," he added.

Even though the fire service managed to reach quickly this time, the need for a station around the neighbourhood is imminent as unfavourable conditions could delay the response time in future. 

They are being treated at the Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery

Raju breathed his last around 3:30am at Zainul Haque Sikder Women's Medical College & Hospital

Fire service officials were primarily suspecting that a short circuit sparked the fire, which then spread quickly due to the plywood decor inside the elevator

Police today said they suspect that a man attempted to die by suicide after stabbing his wife to death in Dhaka’s Bhatara area last night..The deceased was identified as Bonya Akter, 19, a garment worker, police said. .Her husband Md Sujan is receiving treatment at Dhaka Medical Coll

A student of Rajshahi University was killed after his motorcycle was hit by a truck in Rajshahi's Godagari upazila yesterday

Then she somehow got out of the elevator and got onto the balcony of the seventh floor. As the flames started growing, she jumped into the swimming pool next to the building

He used to work for a family living on the 12th floor, said his brother

"At one point, a person on fire jumped off a balcony of the building, screaming 'bachao'," said a witness

The five-member probe committee would be led by Lt Col Mohammad Tajul Islam Chowdhury, director (operations and maintenance) of Fire Service and Civil Defence

A massive fire ripped through seven top floors of a 13-storey residential building in the capital’s Gulshan last night, leaving at least one man dead and dozens injured.

Nineteen firefighting engines along with a team from Bangladesh Air Force brought the blaze under control at 11:00pm

Nineteen firefighting units are trying to douse the blaze that began around 7:00pm on the sixth floor of the 12-storey building on Road-104

The body of one of the three Bangladeshi students, who died in a tragic car crash in Toronto on Monday night, is scheduled to reach Dhaka from Canada on February 24.

A motorcyclist was killed after being hit by a covered van in Rangpur’s Kaunia yesterday.

A Chinese national was killed and three Bangladeshis were injured as a garbage truck hit a pickup van in Madaripur’s Shibchar yesterday.

A Chinese national was killed and three Bangladeshis were injured when a dump truck hit a pickup-van in Madaripur's Shibchar upazila this morning

A battery-run easy-bike driver was killed after a train hit the vehicle at an unmanned railway level crossing in Akkelpur upazila of Joypurhat today

"The truck driver fled the scene immediately. We are trying to identify the vehicle," said police.