Footage from a CCTV camera of a restaurant in Old Dhaka’s Chawkbazar shows how the deadly fire erupted and ripped through the narrow street of Nanda Kumar Lane.

In the footage which looks out into the entrance of the ‘Hotel Raj Mahal’ eatery on the ground floor of Wahed Mansion — from where the fire believed to have started, employees are seen cooking and going about their day’s work around 10:30pm.
At 10.32pm, an explosion ripped through the streets followed by  blazes, when people were seen running for their lives.
At least 68 people were killed when the fast-moving fire swept through several building in the narrow alley on Wednesday (Feb 20).
As many as 200 fire fighters battled for 15 hours to tame the flames. The fire department said the blaze was highly difficult to control because of flammable chemicals that were stored in several buildings.