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‘Highly combustible’ chemicals to blame for spreading Dhaka blaze

A city fire official said they were being stored in one building that caught fire.

A fast-moving fire has swept through a historic district of Bangladesh's capital Dhaka. The blaze broke out Wednesday evening in a multi-storey residential building with one floor reportedly used to store flammable chemicals.

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