Hundreds of people have thronged to the morgue of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) hours after 70 people were killed, and scores went missing, in a massive fire that broke out in the city’s Chawkbazar area.
According to the official count, 70 people have died and scores have gone missing in the fire that engulfed several buildings in the area.
Firefighters and rescuers are still searching for bodies trapped inside gutted shops and houses.
The recovered bodies were sent to the DMCH morgue where hospital authorities are trying to identify them.
Abdus Salam Azad, the older brother of Md Bilwal Hossain—a tailor who works in a shop in Chawkbazar, who went missing in the fire—said he arrived at the hospital in the morning in search of his brother.
However, doctors had not yet identified him among the deceased, he said. 
Desperate people trying to know update on their relatives and acquaintances at DMCH premises on February 21, 2019 | Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka TribuneAnother woman, a worried-looking Rubina Yasmin, was searching for her son—who also went missing in the devastating fire—at the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) morgue.
Rubina was asking doctors and the authorities concerned about the whereabouts of her son, Rohan Khan—a student of North South University—whose picture she was carrying.
Rubina said Rohan—along with three of his friends—went to Old Dhaka, where the fire broke out, on Wednesday night. They were riding on two motorcycles. Though two of his friends returned, Rohan and his friend named Arafat went missing.
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Rubina is just one of many people who have gathered at the DMCH morgue in search of their loved ones.
The massive fire engulfed several multi-storey buildings on Nanda Kumar Lane in Chawkbazar’s Churihatta area of Old Dhaka on Wednesday night killing 70.
The death toll may rise as rescuers are searching bodies in the gutted buildings and wreckage.