A fire broke out at Bashundhara City Shopping complex in the capital at around 11 am on Sunday. 20 units of firefighters are battling the flames for 7 hours since the fire initially started on level 6 of the building.
There has not been any news of casualties in the time of writing this report.
At around 4 pm, a staff of the shopping complex named Anowar Hossain told Prothom Alo via telephone that he was trapped inside the building along with 9 other people and they needed help.