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Bangladesh firefighters comb blaze-hit skyscraper

More than 70 people were hurt in the blaze, which killed at least 19 people. [AFP]

Firefighters were combing through the charred shell of a Bangladesh skyscraper Friday where at least 19 people died in a high-rise blaze, with many having jumped to their deaths.

Flames tore through the 22-storey FR Tower in Dhaka on Thursday afternoon, trapping hundreds of office workers.

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