Main Uddin, the national fire services chief, said the building lacked safety measures.”It did not have at least two staircases or fire exit,” he told AFP. “Most of the people died from suffocation.”Fire officials earlier told reporters they suspected the inferno began when one of the gas cylinders accidentally caught fire.Police inspector Bacchu Mia told AFP that another person had died on Friday morning while being treated in hospital.”The death toll is now 45. The conditions of 15-16 injured people are critical,” he said.Members of the public helped fire crews carry hoses and rescue survivors who clambered down the outside walls to safety as firefighters fought to bring the blaze under control.”We were at the sixth floor when we first saw smoke racing through the staircase. A lot of people rushed upstairs,” Sohel, a restaurant manager who gave only his first name, told AFP.”We used a water pipe to climb down the building. Some of us were injured as they jumped.”
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