A massive fire broke out early Saturday on the ground floor of a 12-storey mixed-use building in a market in Bangladesh’s capital city, officials said.
However, no casualties were reported in the blaze at Jabal E Nur Tower, and fire service officials rescued at least 42 people from the building, the state-run BSS news agency reported.
The incident marks the second major fire in a multi-storey building in Dhaka in two months. On October 14, a massive blaze ripped through a chemical warehouse and an adjacent garments factory in the capital, killing at least 16 people.
According to news portal tbsnews.net, the Fire Service and Civil Defence received information about the blaze at 5:37 am local time and firefighting units reached the scene at around 5:45 am.
Fire service media officer Anwarul Islam said 18 firefighting units were deployed to bring the blaze under control.
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel were also deployed at the site to assist in maintaining law and order, …​A massive fire broke out early Saturday on the ground floor of a 12-storey mixed-use building in a market in Bangladesh’s capital city, officials said.
However, no casualties were reported in the blaze at Jabal E Nur Tower, and fire service officials rescued at least 42 people from the building, the state-run BSS news agency reported.
The incident marks the second major fire in a multi-storey building in Dhaka in two months. On October 14, a massive blaze ripped through a chemical warehouse and an adjacent garments factory in the capital, killing at least 16 people.
According to news portal tbsnews.net, the Fire Service and Civil Defence received information about the blaze at 5:37 am local time and firefighting units reached the scene at around 5:45 am.
Fire service media officer Anwarul Islam said 18 firefighting units were deployed to bring the blaze under control.
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel were also deployed at the site to assist in maintaining law and order, … ​Latest News [ SOBAN NEWS: International and National ]
