A fire that broke out in a 22-storey commercial building in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka killed at least 19 people and injured 70 others, trapping many more
A helicopter carries water to drop on a burning office building as Bangladeshi firefighters on ladders work to extinguish the blaze in Dhaka on March 28, 2019.
Officials carried charred bodies out as hundreds of people gathered in the street below. By evening there were still some pockets of fire in the building, though it had largely been doused, officials said. A girl sobbing outside the Banani building said that her father worked in an office inside but was not answering his phone.The blaze comes a month after an inferno killed 71 people in an old neighbourhood of the city.
Helicopters joined 22 firefighting units that worked with the army, navy, air force and police to battle Thursday's blaze as smoke billowed into the sky.
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