Dhaka, Bangladesh – AFP At least 44 people were killed and dozens injured after a fire blazed through a seven-storey building in an upscale neighbourhood in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka late Thursday, authorities said. “So far 43 people have died from the fire,” Bangladesh’s health minister Samanta Lal Sen told AFP ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Several thousand Rohingya people were left homeless in bone-chilling winter after a massive fire burnt down tents in the southeastern city of Cox’s Bazar early Sunday. At least 1,040 refugee tents and shelters were completely burnt down, Atish Chakma, the Cox’s Bazar fire service deputy assistant director, told Anadolu...
MOSCOW (AA) – A fire at a coal mine near Kazakhstan’s city of Karaganda killed 28 people, the country’s Emergency Ministry said on Saturday. The incident occurred on Friday night when some 252 workers were present in the mine, the ministry said in a statement, adding that a search and rescue operation continues. The mine [&he...
Ismailia, Egypt – AFP A huge fire broke out at a police headquarters in the Egyptian city of Ismailia on Monday, injuring at least 38 people before it was put out, according to the health ministry. No fatalities were immediately reported but the building was fully staffed with policemen when the fire broke out before dawn. […]
Bandung, Indonesia – AFP A days-long fire at a landfill in Indonesia’s most populous province has been declared an emergency by local authorities as thick and putrid smoke from the blaze chokes nearby residents, officials said Friday. The fire at the Sarimukti landfill in Indonesia’s West Java province — which serves th...
