Bangladesh mobile network hit by fire

Part of Bangladesh's telephone network has been shut down after a fire broke out at the country's second biggest mobile telephone exchange in the capital, Dhaka.

A spokesman from the company, CityCell - which is owned by the foreign minister, Morshed Khan - said at least 70,000 mobile phone subscribers in Dhaka and the town of Sylhet had been affected by the shut down.

But the company was unable to say when normal service would be resumed.

However, CityCell's operations in the port city of Chittagong were unaffected as the two networks function independently.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service