Fire kills 81 people in Bangladesh

Firefighters and locals gather around rubble left from the fire late Wednesday in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Relatives mourn victims of the fire, which tore through apartment blocks in Bangladesh’s capital.

Bangladeshi firefighters carry out a body. Crews fought the fire, in the Chawkbazar area, for over 10 hours.

A crowd gathers at the site of a fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

A Bangladeshi boy cries as he carries the coffin of a relative who died in the devastating fire in Dhaka.

Firefighters inspect the aftermath of the fire that killed 81 and injured 50 more people.

The district where the fire raged dates to the Mughal era, 400 years ago, and is crammed with buildings separated by narrow alleys, with residences above shops.