Firefighters work at the scene of a fire that broke out at a chemical warehouse in Dhaka, Bangladesh February 21, 2019. REUTERS/Mohammad Ponir Hossain ReutersDHAKA (Reuters) - The death toll from a fire in a centuries-old area of the Bangladesh capital, Dhaka, jumped dramatically to 56 people on Thursday, a fire official said, and could keep climbing as fire fighters combed the wreckage of the destroyed building. The number could rise further as searching is still continuing," Julfikar Rahman, a director of the Fire Service and Civil Defence, told Reuters. The Dhaka Tribune reported that the building housed a plastics warehouse and was full of flammable material. Building safety regulations are rarely followed in impoverished Bangladesh, where accidents kill hundreds every year.

Source: bd News24 February 20, 2019 20:15 UTC