(Updates with fire extinguished)

DHAKA, Feb 26 (Reuters) - A fire swept through an 11-storey building housing two private television channels and a newspaper office in the Bangladesh capital on Monday, killing at least three people.

Two of the victims died of burn injuries while another died after leaping from the sixth floor of the building to escape the flames, doctors and witnesses said.

Dozens of people were hurt.

Rescue teams led by the army extinguished the blaze just after dusk. "We have completed the search over the whole building and found no more people dead or injured," an army officer supervising the rescue operations said.

Earlier, fire fighters and air force helicopters rescued nearly 150 people from the building.

The cause of the fire was not immediately known.

The building, in the Kawranbazar business district of Dhaka, houses the NTV and Rtv stations and the Amar Desh newspaper -- all owned by a former member of parliament.

(Additional reporting by Azad Majumder)

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