Fire at commercial building kills 44 in Bangladeshi capital Dhaka

At least 44 people have been killed and dozens others injured after a fire broke out in a commercial building in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, officials said.

The fire broke out at the seven-story Green Cozy Cottage, which houses many restaurants and clothing shops, on Dhaka's central Bailey Road on Thursday evening, Brigadier General Main Uddin, chief of the Fire Service and Civil Defence emergency department told reporters at the scene.

The firefighters retrieved the bodies, mostly restaurant guests, from the building after they took more than three hours to douse the blaze, he said.