A massive fire broke out early Saturday on the ground floor of a 12-storey mixed-use building in a market in Bangladesh’s capital city, officials said.

However, no casualties were reported in the blaze at Jabal E Nur Tower in the Babu Bazar area of Keraniganj, and fire service officials rescued at least 42 people from the building, the state-run BSS news agency reported.

The incident marks the second major fire in a multi-storey building in Dhaka in two months. October 14, a massive blaze ripped through a chemical warehouse and an adjacent garments factory in the capital, killing at least 16 people.

According to news portal tbsnews.net, the Fire Service and Civil Defence received information about the blaze at 5:37 am local time and firefighting units reached the scene at around 5:45 am

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