DHAKA (Reuters) - At least 100 people were killed in a fire that razed a crowded Dhaka neighbourhood overnight, and the toll is expected to rise as rescue workers pull more bodies out of smouldering debris, TV channels reported on Friday.
TV channels reported nearly 150 people, many suffering from serious burns, had been admitted to hospitals after the fire, which was started by an explosion in an electrical transformer, engulfed the centuries-old Kayettuli neighbourhood in the heart of the Bangladeshi capital.
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