Bangladesh Wedding Fire Kills At Least 108 Muslims
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100604/ap_on_re_as/as_bangladesh_fire
The only question is did the bride (either a five-year-old girl or a donkey, most likely) survive or perish in this miniature Gehenom appetizer?
Dr. Brennan Fan
Bangladesh fire kills up to 108, injures over 100
By JULHAS ALAM, Associated Press Writer
– 1 hr 45 mins ago
DHAKA, Bangladesh – A huge fire raced through several apartment buildings and devastated a rooftop wedding party in the Bangladeshi capital, killing at least 108 people and injuring more than 100 others, officials and local media said Friday.
The blaze started when an electric transformer exploded late Thursday, igniting a three-story apartment building in the Najirabazar area of old Dhaka before spreading to several other buildings, fire official Nazrul Islam said.
Rescuers recovered at least 87 charred bodies from the buildings, and other people may have died on the way to hospital, Islam said. Citing officials at the scene and hospital doctors, ATN Bangla television station said at least 108 people were killed and more than 100 injured.
"It has caused a huge devastation," Islam told The Associated Press.
Victims included several guests of a wedding party on the roof of one of the apartment buildings, Islam said.
He said the firefighters had the blaze under control and that rescue efforts continued Friday.
Bangla Vision TV station quoted unnamed fire officials as saying the fire had spread to at least 20 apartment complexes. TV footage showed firefighters and residents carrying injured victims by tricycle rickshaws to hospitals as relatives wailed.
The state-run Dhaka Medical College Hospital was overwhelmed with burned patients. Burn unit chief Shamanta Lal Sen said he had seen "such a scenario" in his 40-year career.
Bangla Vision said rescue efforts were hampered the area's narrow roads.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed her shock over the incident and sent condolences to the families of the victim.
Authorities ordered an investigation into the cause of the fire.
QUOTE>>Businessman Mohammad Gulzar was serving beverages to dozens of guests who had just arrived in his small apartment for his daughter's wedding reception when they were jolted by a loud explosion. The building was quickly engulfed by fire, and the guests tried to run outside but could not because the blaze already covered the gate of the five-story building.
At least 15 of Gulzar's guests and family members were trapped and died.
"Why me, Allah? What wrong have I committed?" Gulzar, 50, cried as he sat in front of rows of corpses covered with white shrouds on the road outside his burned apartment.
Gulzar's daughter Runa Aktar survived because she was at a beauty parlor to prepare for the ceremony. <<UNQUOTE
So if she was the only daughter, the bride survived. Otherwise also there are highest chances that the bride among all the daughters only could have gone to the beauty parlor to prepare for the ceremony.
Any how it was a big thing for BD.
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