Dhaka - At least four persons were killed and 20 injured in a devastating fire Friday at Basundhara City, Bangladesh's largest shopping mall, in Dhaka, officials said.
Firefighters recovered three more charred bodies from inside the debris on the upper floors of the 21-storey building, in which the top five floors were destroyed, Tejgaon zone police chief Mahbubur Rahman said.
Earlier, a firefighter of the Basundhara group was killed and 20 people sustained burn injuries.
Dhaka - A four-member Scotland Yard team arrived in Dhaka Wednesday to assist Bangladesh authorities in investigating last month's mutiny by paramilitary soldiers that killed 71 people, mostly army officers, officials said.
The British government sent the team on Bangladesh's request to help local authorities investigate the massacre inside the Dhaka headquarters of the Bangladesh Rifle border guards, a British High Commission representative said.
Dhaka, Mar. 10 : Premier investigation agency, Scotland Yard would be sending its team here to help the local investigation agency probe the Bangladesh Rifles
(BDR) mutiny which left 74 BDR personnel dead.
Talking to reporters on Tuesday, Britain''s Minister for International Development, Mike Foster, said the investigative team would consist of four Scotland Yard officials.
According to reports, it is revealed that the revolt could have been pre-planned.
Dhaka - Two army officers were killed Monday in a helicopter crash in Tangail district of central Bangladesh, according to officials.
Major General Rafiqil Islam and the pilot of the chopper, Lt Col Istiaq Shahid, died on the spot as the helicopter crushed into a field at Kalihati, 85 kilometres northwest of Dhaka, a district administration officer said.
The co-pilot survived the accident with severe injuries and was shifted to Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka.
Dhaka - A section of Bangladesh's paramilitary border troops involved in last week's mutiny at their headquarters and killings of their commanders may face courts martial, a minister said Saturday.
"If needed, they will be tried in courts martial under the army rules," the Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Shafiq Ahmed told reporters in Dhaka while briefing on progress into the process of mutineers' trials.
Dhaka - Authorities in Bangladesh Friday beefed up security at the parliament building and its premises following last week's troop mutiny in central Dhaka that left 71 people, including scores of military officers, dead.
"We have also asked the security agencies to improve the entire security system for parliament," Abdus Shahid, the chief whip of Bangladesh parliament told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa after a special meeting with the top security officials.
Dhaka - At least four persons were killed and 20 injured in a devastating fire Friday at Basundhara City, Bangladesh's largest shopping mall, in Dhaka, officials said.
Dhaka - A four-member Scotland Yard team arrived in Dhaka Wednesday to assist Bangladesh authorities in investigating last month's mutiny by paramilitary soldiers that killed 71 people, mostly army officers, officials said.
Dhaka, Mar. 10 : Premier investigation agency, Scotland Yard would be sending its team here to help the local investigation agency probe the Bangladesh Rifles 
Dhaka - A section of Bangladesh's paramilitary border troops involved in last week's mutiny at their headquarters and killings of their commanders may face courts martial, a minister said Saturday.
Dhaka - Authorities in Bangladesh Friday beefed up security at the parliament building and its premises following last week's troop mutiny in central Dhaka that left 71 people, including scores of military officers, dead.
