Fire Kills Over 100 at Dhaka, Bagladesh

A devastating fire raced through several apartment complexes in the capital, Dhaka, on Thursday night, killing more than 100 people and injuring dozens, officials and local media reported. A fire official, Nazrul Islam, said the blaze started when an electric transformer exploded, igniting a three-story apartment building in the Najirabazar area of old Dhaka. He said “many bodies” had been recovered. The television station ATN Bangla reported Friday that at least 104 people had died, and that more than 100 people were injured.


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Bangladesh joins Pakistan in blocking Facebook

Bangladesh has blocked the Facebook social networking site because of “objectionable” materials it contained about the Prophet Mohammad and the country’s political leaders, a telecoms regulatory official said on Sunday. Facebook was barred last week by a court in Pakistan, also overwhelmingly Muslim, because of an online competition to draw the Prophet Mohammad.Hundreds of protesters marched through Dhaka on Friday demanding action against Facebook and those accused of defaming the Prophet.The elite security force Rapid Action Battalion on Saturday arrested a man in Dhaka for posting “obnoxious” images of the country’s political leaders, including Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and opposition leader Begum Khaleda Zia.Facebook, popular among Bangladeshis, especially young people, triggered protests by users.
“This was a wrong decision and should be withdrawn immediately,” Mohammad Zafar Iqbal, professor of Computer Science at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, told a television interviewer.

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