Fire Brigade chief Abu Nayeem Mohammed Shahidullah 
had said that five floors, from the 15th to 19th, were burnt to a shell and the 14th was partially destroyed by the inferno. Bashundhara Group executive director Zahidur Rahman, however, said the blaze started on the 18th floor and spread down to the 13th and up to the 20th, gutting those storeys including chairman Ahmed Akber Sobhan's office on the 19th The owners of Basundhara City, opened to the public in August 2004, claim it is the largest shopping mall in South Asia and the 12th largest in the world....Dhaka, Aug 24 (bdnews24.com).
had said that five floors, from the 15th to 19th, were burnt to a shell and the 14th was partially destroyed by the inferno. Bashundhara Group executive director Zahidur Rahman, however, said the blaze started on the 18th floor and spread down to the 13th and up to the 20th, gutting those storeys including chairman Ahmed Akber Sobhan's office on the 19th The owners of Basundhara City, opened to the public in August 2004, claim it is the largest shopping mall in South Asia and the 12th largest in the world....Dhaka, Aug 24 (bdnews24.com).Police blocked traffic on the Panthapath Road immidiately after the incident.Several firefighting units rushed to the scene and swung to action and trying to control the fire.
It is the second time massive fire broke out at the Bashundhara City shopping complex in the capital in the same year. We all know that there was another fire broke out at the Bashundhara City Shopping complex in Friday, 13 March 2009.Then the massive fire was Breaking out at the 20th floor (top floor) at about 1:00pm, the fire is engulfing the down floors gradually.As of 4:30pm, the flame of the fire reached the 13th floor of the building.Seven Basundhara employees including its own firefighters died after Bangladesh's largest shopping mall turned into a towering inferno on Mar 13,2009.
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