Two killed in overnight fire at Katabon's Al Baraka Tower

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DHAKA: A fatal overnight fire at a fourteen-storey residential building in Dhaka’s Katabon area has tragically left two young men dead. The blaze erupted in the early hours of Saturday inside two separate apartments located on the twelfth floor of the Al-Baraka Tower on Elephant Road.

Six firefighting units quickly responded to the emergency, working through the darkness to successfully bring the heavy flames under control before dawn.

Emergency crews rescued two trapped individuals from the burning building and rushed them to Dhaka Medical College Hospital, where doctors declared them dead on arrival.

The victims were identified as twenty-five-year-old Johny Mia and nineteen-year-old Abdul Salam. The fire was fully extinguished by early morning.