The Latest Breaking News from Dhaka

It’s ten years since the tragic collapse of the Rana Plaza building near Dhaka, Bangladesh, which killed at least 1,132 garment workers and injured several thousand more. The collapse of the eight-storey building on April 24 2013, which housed five factories making clothes for western high street brands like Accessorize,…

A huge fire swept through a shopping complex containing nearly 1,500 shops in Bangladesh's capital of Dhaka, officials said on Saturday as firefighters and soldiers struggled to put out the blaze with smoke hampering rescue efforts.

Hundreds of Bangladeshi firefighters battled an inferno that raged through a popular clothing market in the capital Dhaka on Tuesday and blanketed the city's oldest neighbourhoods in black smoke. No fatalities have been reported so far, but shop owners and fire officials told reporters that the famous Bongo Bazar and…

A massive fire raged through at least six cloth markets in Bangladesh's capital of Dhaka on Tuesday, local media reported citing witnesses and fire officials.

Thousands of garment shops burn down in the fire, dealing a major blow to businesses weeks before the Eid festival.

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A explosion inside of a seven-story commercial building in Bangladesh's capital of Dhaka has killed 14 people and injured more than 120 people, officials say

Firefighters are carrying victims out of the wreckage on stretchers. Officials are investigating the cause of the blast. Two other recent explosions were blamed on gas leaks.

The explosion took place inside a five-storey building in a bustling commercial district in the Bangladeshi capital.