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Green Cozy Cottage shopping mall on Bailey Road lacking a fire exit is not an anomaly. Restaurants around the city have the same problem. Clockwise... The fire exit of another Bailey Road restaurant building leads directly to LPG gas cylinders stored on the ground floor, blocking the egress. The sole staircase of this restaurant building in Banani has little space left with broken furniture scattered along it, which will likely act as fuel in case of a fire. The ground floor door of a fire exit at this Dhanmondi restaurant was found locked. A side exit leads straight to a semi-outdoor kitchen that uses LPG.