Health Minister Samanta Lal Sen has said at least 46 dead in the devastating fire that razed through the building housing the Kacchi Bhai outlet on Bailey Road in the capital Dhaka on Thursday night.

Samanta Lal Sen also said that the people undergoing treatment are in critical condition. The death toll from the blazing inferno kept climbing through the night, and is likely to rise further.

The Health Minister gave this information at a press briefing organised at the Sheikh Hasina National Burn and Plastic Surgery Institute on Friday (1 March).

At least 46 people, including 26 women and three children, were killed and 22 critically injured in the fire that broke out at the seven-storey Green Cozy Cottage Shopping Mall on Bailey Road in Dhaka last night.

Of the 39 victims identified, names of 25 victims have so far been disclosed.