Fire at country's largest shopping malll kills 1, injures at least 50

Описание: (13 Mar 2009) SHOTLIST
1. Wide shot of Bashundhara City Complex with smoke rising from top floors
2. Various of smoke billowing out of windows
3. Helicopter circling building
4. Mid shot of top floors destroyed by fire, smoke rising
5. Wide of shopping complex
6. Firefighters looking out of broken window
7. Firefighters ascending on mechanical ladder
8. Wide of building and mechanical ladder
9. Various of firefighters dowsing building
10. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Muzaffar Ali, Security guard:
"We don't know how the fire started. The offices were all closed but suddenly the fire alarms started ringing on the 17th floor and our staff immediately went to the spot to put out the fire."
11. Firefighters knocking out glass windows to contain fire
12. Various of flames on upper floors
13. SOUNDBITE (Bangla) Tauhidul Islam, Director of Bashundhara conglomerate:
"Sometimes it seems the fire has been contained but it flares up again and again because the fire services are not able to reach the parts of the building where the fire is spreading from because of a lack of good equipment. This is why the fire has not been contained yet."
14. Firemen drawing water out of shopping mall fountain
15. Water truck and building's front facade
16. Bashundhara Group logo on building's facade
STORYLINE:
A helicopter plucked survivors from the roof of Bangladesh's biggest shopping mall on Friday as a fire raced through the upper levels of the high-rise complex, killing a security guard and injuring at least 50 other people.
Huge flames shot into the air amid billowing smoke as hundreds of panicked people, many carrying shopping bags, fled Dhaka's 22-story Bashundhara City mall, which has more than 2,000 stores and cafes.
The blaze broke out on the 18th floor, a fire official said. Fifteen fire trucks responded, but the flames still spread quickly. Troops and police joined firefighters in the rescue work, said a spokesman for Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
An air force helicopter rescued three people, including the mall's chief security officer, from the roof, a fire
official said.
The official said the blaze, fanned by summer winds, continued burning for more than four hours.
He said firefighters were able to reach the 13th floor and were trying to keep the blaze from spreading further.
It was unclear how many people were inside the mall when the fire started.
Doctors at Shamarita Hospital said a security guard died from burns and another 17 people were being treated there for smoke inhalation. Other hospitals reported receiving at least 33 people suffering from smoke inhalation.
The cause of the fire was not immediately known. The floor where it began has the offices of the mall's owner, the
Bashundhara company, which would normally be closed on Friday, part of the weekend in Bangladesh.
The mall opened in 2004.

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