Footage from a camera inside a restaurant shows a massive fire suddenly engulfing the streetFootage from the CCTV camera of a restaurant on Nanda Kumar Lane in Old Dhaka may have captured the explosion that triggered the fire at Chawkbazar on Wednesday. The footage from the camera in Hotel Raj Mahal, on the ground floor of Haji Wahed Mansion, shows the employees of the restaurant working when the explosion rips through the street at 10:32pm on the day. “I was on a rickshaw when the explosion took place, I don’t think my rickshawpuller is alive,” he said. If the cylinder exploded, the car would’ve blown up. At least 67 people were killed in a massive fire that ravaged several multi-storey buildings at Nanda Kumar Lane in the Churihatta area of Chawkbazar, Old Dhaka, on Wednesday night.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 23, 2019 09:45 UTC