12 people died in building blaze

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Eyewitnesses say they heard people screaming and saw others waiting to be rescued. Four children were among 12 people killed in a fire at an apartment building in the Bronx borough of New York. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the fire was the deadliest in the city for at least 25 years. The victims include a one-year-old child, he added. More than firefighters helped bring the blaze under control. In a statement, the New York Police Department said a boy and three girls, aged one, two and seven, had died. Officials said the first alarm sounded at the five-storey building at about local time GMT.

12 people died in building blaze

Fire at Gausul Azam Market under control. Ex-land minister admits to having properties abroad. Asia's richest man takes global rich to the zoo. At least 44 people were killed and 22 others critically injured in a fire at a seven-storey building on Bailey Road in the capital last night. The fire was first noticed on the ground floor of Green Cozy Cottage Shopping Mall around pm and it soon spread to the upper floors, witnesses said. Firefighters brought the flames under control after two hours of frantic efforts. There were cooking gas tanks on almost every floor of the building, he said, adding that either a stove or a gas tank could have caused the fire. Thirteen fire engines and a team of Border Guard Bangladesh worked at the scene, said Talha Bin Zasim, a spokesperson of fire service. There were only two lifts and a staircase in the building with no emergency exit, said a top fire service official. As the fire spread, people jumped out of even third floor windows while many were seen crying for help on the sixth floor and the rooftop. Bachchu Miah, in-charge of the DMCH police outpost, said 10 people injured after jumping off the building were brought to the hospital. There were several clothing stores and restaurants including Kachchi Bhai, Khana's, and Pizza Inn at the building.

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NEW YORK: Twelve people were dead and four more were fighting for their lives late Thursday after a fire swept through a Bronx apartment building on one of the coldest nights so far this winter, city officials said. The victims included a child around a year old, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio said during a briefing outside the building. Fire commissioner Daniel Nigro called the fire, "historic in its magnitude,'' because of the number of lives lost. Excluding the Sept 11 attacks, it was the worst fire in the city since 87 people were killed at a social club fire in the Bronx in The blaze broke out on the first floor of a five-storey building just before 7pm and quickly ripped through the structure, a block from the grounds of the Bronx Zoo.

Eyewitnesses say they heard people screaming and saw others waiting to be rescued. Four children were among 12 people killed in a fire at an apartment building in the Bronx borough of New York. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said the fire was the deadliest in the city for at least 25 years. The victims include a one-year-old child, he added. More than firefighters helped bring the blaze under control.

12 people died in building blaze

Twelve people are dead and officials said they expect that number to increase after a massive fire ripped through West London's Grenfell Tower. A desperate mother threw her baby to safety as a massive fire ripped through a West London residential apartment block on Wednesday, witnesses say. Authorities said they expect the death toll to rise, according to CNN. Witnesses reported seeing people jump from the blazing tower and a woman reportedly tossed her child out of a window on the ninth or 10th floor to safety, the Associated Press reports. Fire officials received reports of the blaze just before 1 a.

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Opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn said sprinkler systems should be installed in such blocks and called on the Government to make a statement in Parliament. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. We've received your submission. Register for more free articles. List of Partners vendors. Both had perished. Then, by the exit, I saw the glass coming down like flames. The building had recently undergone an 8. Sign up! Use limited data to select content. This Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Sign up for our newsletter to keep reading. A desperate mother threw her baby to safety as a massive fire ripped through a West London residential apartment block on Wednesday, witnesses say. Londoners have left tributes near the site of a storey housing block that caught fire yesterday, as officials warn the death toll is likely to rise.

Twelve people have been killed and several more have been injured after a fire broke out in an apartment building in the US city of Philadelphia.

Edit Close. Eyewitnesses say they heard people screaming and saw others waiting to be rescued. Most Viewed. Tomas E. Already a Subscriber? London tower fire: Londoners remember 12 victims of housing block fire as more deaths expected. More on:. The British Government ordered checks at other tower blocks that have had, or are going through, similar refurbishments to Grenfell Tower, amid concerns that building renovations may have contributed to the spread of the blaze. The emergency services said it was too early to say what had caused the inferno, which left the block a charred, smoking shell. Witness Rafael Gonzalez, who lives in a building across the street, told WCBS-TV he was woken by the smell of smoke and then saw some people using a fire escape of the burning building as the fire raged. This is the worst fire tragedy we have seen in this city in at least a quarter century. Create profiles for personalised advertising.