A fire in a high-rise office building in Bangladesh's capital on Thursday killed 17 people and injured about 70 others, officials say.
"The situation is under control," said Debashish Bardhan, a Fire Service and Civil Defense deputy director.Firefighters were shattering the building's glass walls to free toxic gas.Munir Uz Zaman / AFP - Getty Images
A Facebook Live video taken by Roy Pinaki showed five people climbing down from windows while burnt building materials fell around them. One person slipped from what appeared to be a rope that people were using to escape, bounced off utility wires and fell to the ground. Witness Sajib Hasan said some people shouted for help from windows on the upper floors of the building. Heavy smoke deterred efforts by responders to get close to them, but Hasan said he watched at least a dozen people get rescued.
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