A fire struck a high-rise office building in Bangladesh’s capital on Thursday, killing at least 25 people and injuring about 70 others, officials said.

NTV Online has found that Faruk Rupayan Tower (FR Tower) had caught fire back in 2008. At least 20 of the panic stricken occupants of a 23-storey building were injured in the capital’s Banani area on July 31, 2008 after a minivan parked in the underground parking lot caught fire engulfing the building with dense smoke, reported thedailystar.net.

‘Several hundred people were inside the building when the fire broke out trapping them amid the dense smoke. The injured were hurt trying to leap off to adjacent buildings’, the daily reported.

‘According to the witnesses, after the fire broke out about 200 people were able to rush out of the building immediately while several hundred others went to the roof of the building, many of whom leapt off to the adjacent 22-storey Awal Centre.

Meanwhile, at least 30 others jumped off to the rooftop of another adjacent three-storey building.’

According to Samsuzzoha, the then deputy assistant director (DAD) of Fire Service and Civil Defence said, ‘The CNG line of the minivan was leaking and when the driver tried to start the vehicle, it caught fire creating smoke and panic’, reported The Daily Star.