Dhaka fire: more than 50 die in apartments used as chemical store

Police warn death toll may rise in ‘highly combustable’ blaze in old part of Bangladesh capital

At least 56 people have died in a huge fire that tore through apartment buildings also used as chemical warehouses in an old part of the Bangladeshi capita.

Dozens of people were trapped in the buildings, unable to escape onto narrow streets clogged with traffic, as the highly-combustible stores of chemicals, body sprays and plastic granules erupted in flames.

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