A slum dweller tries to salvage their belongings after a fire that awept through a slum and gutted more than 100 shanties at Agargaon in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 03 February 2013. No casulties were reported while the cause of the fire yet to be known, the fire service stated. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
Bangladeshi civilians help firefighters to extinguish a fire at a shopping mall at New Market area, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 20 February 2009. More than 25 people were injured including fire fighters and garment workers. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
Fire fighters carry an injured person during the rescue operation. Four persons died and got injured according to a fire service report at Kawran Bazaar, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 25 February 2007. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
A Bangladeshi fire fighter accompanies an injured person during a blaze at Kawran Bazaar, Dhaka, 26 February 2007. The fire was sparked on the second floor caused by short circuit of the 11-storey building that houses two private TV channels and other businesses. At least two persons died and many injured according to a fire service report. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
Bangladeshi rescue workers try to extinguish fire during a blaze at Kawran Bazaar, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 26 February 2007. The fire was sparked on the second floor caused by short circuit of the 11-storey building that houses two private TV channels and other businesses. At least two persons died and many injured according to a fire service report. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
A view of the premises following a devastating fire at the Tazreen Fashions Limited garments factory, where the death toll rose to 121 and hundreds were injured, at Nischintapur, Savar outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 25 November 2012. Reports state on 17 December 2012 that an official inquiry into a factory fire in Bangladesh into the blaze was an act of sabotage. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
Rescue workers use crane to evacuate stranded people from different floors of the 11-storey building on fire that houses two private TV channels and other businesses, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 25 February 2007. At least two thousand people work there in different offices. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
Rescue workers carry bodies downstairs following a devastating fire that ablaze Tazreen Fashions Limited garments factory at Nischintapur, Savar outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 25 November 2012. Latest reports state the death toll rises to 121 and hundreds were injured after the fire incident. Reports state on 17 December 2012 that an official inquiry into a factory fire in Bangladesh into the blaze was an act of sabotage. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
A Bangladeshi woman mourns as she lost her belongings after a fire at Sweeper Colony, Hazaribagh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 21 November 2008. The fire was caused by a short circuit. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
Bangladeshi fire fighters and civilians try to extinguish a fire at Sweeper Colony, Hazaribagh, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 21 November 2008. The fire was caused by a short circuit and no report of casualties so far after two hours of the fire. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
Slum dwellers look for their belongings after a fire in a slum at Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 06 April 2009. At least 300 shanti houses got burnt after the fire caused by a short circuit in the densely populated slum area of the city. No casulties were reported two hours after the incident. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
Sheuli, one of the fire victims lays over the burnt tin of her house following a huge fire that gutted 500 shanties at Bou Bazar slum at Hazaribagh in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 18 November 2012. At least 11 people died including six woman and one child. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
A Bangladeshi security official counts the dead bodies after a blaze raged through a plastic factory and several buildings at Kayettuli in Old Dhaka, Bangladesh, 04 June 2010. 100 dead bodies have been recovered while many more were injured as the fire broke out around 9pm on 03 June 2010. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
A Bangladeshi Army helicopter rescues a trapped man from the roof top of the shopping mall as a huge fire broke out in the Basundhara City, 21-storied building, the country's largest shopping mall, turned into a towering inferno as the fire engulfing the corporate offices on the upper floors in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 13 March 2009. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
A child victim reacts as he is taking treatment at Dhaka Medical Hospital following a fire that gutted eight houses and over 20 shops at Nimtali, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 05 June 2010. Death toll rose to 117 and more than 150 injured taking treatment at different hospitals in the city while the country observes a national mourning day in memory of those killed in Nimtali fire at night on 03 June 2010. The fire departments lack of readiness to deal with fire in dense neighbourhoods with narrow streets and unplanned building boom in the city were the reasons for high number of casualties, experts said. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
Fire fighters take more than six hours to control the fire at the largest shopping mall in South Asia even though the building was said to be equipped with the most modern fire-fighting equipment. Dhaka, Bangladesh, 13 March 2009. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
Fire fighters try their best to put the fire out despite considerable difficulty of having lack of training and proper rescue equipments, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 25 February 2007. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
Bangladeshi youth protest against the deaths of the garments workers in the Ashulia fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 16 December 2012. Reports state that more than 100 people were killed after a devastating fire took place at Tazreen Fashions Limited garments factory at Nischintapur, in Savar on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, late on 24 November 2012. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
Army soldiers have been deployed to monitor the rescue operation during a fire at a garment unit of Ha-Mim Group in Savar, Bangladesh, 14 December 2010. At least 24 people died and more than hundreds were injured when the fire broke out at the ninth and 10th floors of the building. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
Rescue workers use crane to evacuate stranded people from different floors of the 11-storey building on fire that houses two private TV channels and other businesses, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 25 February 2007. Fire fighters having lack of proper training and equipments, often risk their lives to rescue people. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
Bangladeshi civilians try to salve their belongings after a fire raging through the sprawling Bihari slum in Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 27 February 2010. At least 70 shanties were burnt as gang members have set fire to the slum in the evening, according to a witness. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
A Bangladeshi injured worker is being carried on a stretcher by fellow workers during a fire at a garment unit of Ha-Mim Group in Savar, Bangladesh, 14 December 2010. At least 24 people died and more than hundreds were injured when the fire broke out at the ninth and 10th floors of the building. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
Aysa Begum cries in front of her burnt shanty after a fire raced through a slum at Symoli in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 16 May 2012. At least 150 shanties were completely destroyed. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
Bangladeshi fire fighters try to extinguish a fire at a shopping mall and a garments at New Market area, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 20 February 2009. More than 25 people injured including fire fighters and garment workers. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
A resident identified as Ripon shows a burnt flask that used by his dead niece at their burnt house where he lost six family members including mother and sisters following a fire that gutted eight houses and over 20 shops at Nimtali, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 06 June 2010. At least 117 people died including children and women while more than 150 people were injured after a fire at night on 03 June 2010. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
A fire fighter tries to extinguish a fire with out proper equipment at night in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 11 January 2008. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
Bangladesh fire fighters try to douse a fire that broke out at the National Curriculum and Textbook Board warehouse at Tejgaon, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 18 October 2009. The fire continues to burn through over seven hours since 7:15 AM while a total 14 firefighting units, two more teams from the army and the navy are struggling to douse the blaze. The fire spread in the part of the stores containing stacks of book printing paper. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
Firefighters try to extinguish a fire which gutted at least 500 shanties of a slum near Padma Garments in Begunbari area of Tejgaon in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 20 September 2012. Fire fighters and civilians managed to control the fire after one and half hour. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
Fire protection equipments are seen on the first floor of the Garib and Garib sweater factory after a fire in Gazipur some 50km (30 miles) north of the capital, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 26 February 2010. Twenty-one garment workers were killed and some 50 injured in the fire started on the first floor of the seven-storey building as workers had finished for the night and were leaving the factory while lack of safety standards and poor wiring cause several fatal factory fires every year in Bangladesh. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
A fireman attempts to extinguish a fire at Kung Keng textile factory, in Export Processing Zone, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 26 August 2005. Unsafe working conditions have led to repeated accidents. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
Rozina, an injured worker, receives treatment at a hospital following a fire at 'SMART' factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 26 January 2013. At least seven garment workers died and many more were injured in a stampede after a fire broke out in the factory, fire services reported. A recent devastating fire killed more than 100 workers in Tazreen Fashions Ltd at Ashulia in Dhaka while at least 25 people were killed in a fire in the same industrial area in December 2010 and an incident of fire in the KTS Textiles and Garments had claimed 54 lives in Chittagong On Feb 2006. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
A panicked person gets rescued climbing a rope during a blaze at Kawran Bazaar, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 26 February 2007. The fire was sparked on the second floor caused by short circuit of the 11-storey building that houses two private TV channels and other businesses. At least two persons died and many injured according to a fire service report. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
Civilians take part in the fire rescue operation in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 01 February 2006. Volunteers in any disasters or accidents risk their lives before the arrival of any official rescue groups. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
Workers clean the disaster site following a huge fire at Nimtali, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 04 June 2010. Death toll rises to 116 while more than 150 were injured getting treatment in the hospital following a fire broke out on 03 June 2010 night at about 9pm after the electrical transformer at Nawab Katra in Nimtali in Dhaka City bursted into flames that raced through several apartment complexes, feeding on flammable chemicals and plastic goods in a string of small shops lining the street beneath, fire officials said. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH
A slum dweller tries to salvage her belongings after a fire that swept through a slum and gutted more than 100 shanties at Agargaon in Dhaka, Bangladesh 03 February 2013. No casulties were reported while the cause of the fire is yet to be known, the fire service stated. EPA/ABIR ABDULLAH