A court in Bangladesh has sentenced 26 people, including a politician and three officials from an elite security unit, to death over the politically motivated killings of seven people in 2014.

A fire tore through an 11-storey building housing a clothes factory and residential complex in Bangladesh's capital, killing at least eight people, including the owner.

The death toll after a devastating fire raced through several apartment complexes in the Bangladeshi capital has passed 100, local media reported today.