A military spokesman said in a statement that an air force helicopter had joined the firefighting effort. Aerial footage from the chopper showed hundreds of people watching the fire from a nearby overpass.
DHAKA: Hundreds of Bangladeshi firefighters were mobilized in the capital Dhaka on Tuesday to battle an inferno that raged through a popular clothing market and blanketed the city’s oldest neighborhoods in black smoke. No casualties have been reported so far, but shop owners and fire officials told reporters that the Bongo Bazar market and three adjacent commercial precincts