Authorities have decided on a crackdown on buildings without fire safety in Dhaka from next week after a fire at a high-rise in Gulshan killed at least 2 people and injured many others.
As February 21 was a public holiday, four friends and colleagues from two private companies got together yesterday at a house in Narayanganj's Kanchpur area
Gulshan fire: The apartment building in Gulshan that caught fire on February 19 is typical of a new genre of residential buildings emanating from the 2008 Dhaka Metropolis Building Construction Rules, that allow single-stair 12-storey residential buildings with four apartments per floor.
An 18-members medical board has been formed for the treatment of three people who were injured during last night's fire in a residential building in Gulshan
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