Nocere – Earth Disasters

On a Friday, where the streets of Dhaka were filled with shoppers spending their first day of weekend. One shopping mall was caught with a massive fire that blaze through the top floors’ offices. The fire was able to spread with the aid of windy climate, causing it much harder to be controlled. There was a point whereby windows of the offices were seemed melting due to extreme heat from the blaze.

Shoppers within the ground floor were quickly evacuated from the scene to ensure their safety before firefighters could progress with putting out the fire. Response from media states that firefighters faced difficulties in reaching higher floors, due to limitations of equipments. After much struggle, the fire eventually subsided and was able to be completely extinguished.

A security guard was said to have been killed, while 17 others were wounded. The cause of the fire remains to be investigated.

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