Banani Tragedy // 28 March 2019// Banani FR Tower Fire

Описание: Banani FR Tower fire, 28 March 2019.

At least 19 people, including a Sri Lankan national, was killed, over 100 were injured and scores were reportedly missing as fire tore through a 23-storey commercial building at Banani in Dhaka on Thursday, 28 march 2019.

Rescue workers feared that the death toll might rise as fire fighters recovered charred bodies from FR Tower where an unknown number of office staff were trapped being engulfed by smoke and flames.

At about 11:30pm, the fire service and civil defence control room notice board set up at the spot updated the death toll to 19.
Identities of the deceased were not disclosed by the police or other authorities as the fire service and civil defence officials said they would be continuing search and rescue operations at eighth to 11th floor of the building until Friday morning.

Deceased Sri Lankan national Nirosh Vigma Rajah, 28, worked with Scanwell Logistics in the building, said Banani police station officer-in-charge BM Forman Ali. The formalities of the handover of the bodies were underway, he added.

The families and the police identified eight of the deceased as Parjez Hossain, 47, of Gopalganj, Mamun, 36, of Regent Air Express, Amina Yesmin, 40, of Molvibazar who was on the ninth floor, Abdullah Al Faruk, 35, who was on the 10th floor, Maksudur Rahman, 36, of Gendaria, Rezaul Karim Kazi, 42, of Asif International, Mizanur Rahman, 35, and Rumki, 35.

At about 11:00pm, Gulshan police senior assistant commissioner Rafikul Islam said that they had so far identified 15 deceased.
The fire broke out at about noon but the source of the fire could not be established yet, officials said.

A number of officials and neighbours said another fire had broken up at the basement of the building few years ago.

FR Tower security guard Md Jahangir Alam said that he saw smoke first at the 8th floor.

He said that the building housed many corporate offices and few shops on ground floor and the first floor.

Bangladesh army, navy, air force and police, among others, joined the 22 fire fighting units.

Some of those trapped were seen waving frantically from the windows and roof and screaming for help while others tried to jump to safety as hundreds of panicked onlookers crowded the streets in Banani commercial area, witnesses said.