Woman dies in Dhanmondi residential building fire

A woman has died from suffocation in a fire that ignited in a multi-storey residential building in the capital's Dhanmondi.

Two others were injured after the fire broke out on the third floor of the 12-storey apartment complex opposite the Eidgah Mosque in Dhanmondi Road No. 6/A around 9:25 am on Saturday, Md Russell, the duty officer of the fire service's control room, told bdnews24.com. 

The casualties could not be identified immediately.

Three units of the fire service doused the fire at 10:10 am.

A man and two women were rushed to a hospital after the incident, said Dhanmondi Model Police Inspector (Investigation) Parvez Islam.

Upon arrival at the hospital, doctors pronounced one of the victims dead, said Bacchu Mia, chief of Dhaka Medical College Hospital's police outpost.

The other woman also suffered from suffocation and has been admitted to the hospital while the man was discharged after primary care, bdnews24.com reported quoting Bacchu.

The source of the fire and the extent of damage incurred could not be determined immediately.