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Dhaka: A fire broke out in three slums of the capital in two days. The last sambaltukuo made for the hardships of low-income people has been burned in the fire.
His arranged family is burned in the fire. More than four hundred houses and shops in the three slums have been burned to the ground.
Fifteen hundred members of more than three hundred families in three slums have lost their livelihoods and now live day and night in the open.
In the last 28 hours, a fire broke out in the capital’s Sattala slums, the Bihari camp slums of Mohammadpur and Kalshi. No casualties were reported in the incidents. The fire and civil defense department believe the fire was caused by an electrical short in the three slums.
However, slum dwellers complained that someone had set fire to the neighborhood on purpose.
According to data provided by the Fire and Civil Defense Department, 123 fires broke out in different slums of the capital in the last four years from January 2016 to October 2020. Ten people were injured and three died in the incidents. The 123 fires in the slums caused a loss of Tk 11 crore 81 lakh 98,573 and the rescue amount was Tk 19 crore 57 lakh 45 thousand.
Looking at the statistics, it is seen that there were 32 fires in Dhaka’s slums in 2016, 33 in 2016, 31 in 2019 and 26 as of October 2020.
Debashish Vardhan, Deputy Director (Operations) of the Dhaka Division of the Fire and Civil Defense Department, said the slum could catch fire for various reasons. He told banglanews that there are illegal gas and electricity connections in almost every slum in the capital. From electrical shorts, gas line or cylinder leaks, cigarette fires or mosquito coils, fires can also start for unknown reasons.
Every slum catches fire for one reason or another. He said the actual cause of the fire in the slum could be determined after an investigation.
On Monday (November 24) around 1:15 pm, a fire broke out in the mosque market of the staff quarters of the seven-story neighborhood in the capital, burning more than 100 houses and 26/30 stores in the neighborhood.
Maryland. Farooq Hossain lived in this poor neighborhood. He has a tea shop in the slum mosque market. The fire did not damage his tea stall, but his house behind the market was burned to the ground. He couldn’t find anything.
Witness Farooq told banglanews that when he closed the store for the night and returned, he saw smoke coming from the glowing store in the market. Later it caught fire. I tried to put out the fire in the store with some people around. The fire spread to the market at that time. The fire can start from the current line of that store. Because there was a smell of burning in the smoke from the fire.
On the same day, Tuesday (November 24) at 4:15 pm, a fire broke out in the slum of the Bihari camp at Jahuri Mahalla on Babar Road in Mohammadpur, the capital. Ten units of the fire service tried to control the fire at 5 in the afternoon. Hundreds of houses in the slums were burned by fire.
Slum victims complained that the fire spread from an empty house to the entire neighborhood. Someone did it on purpose. Because it is not normal for fires to spread so fast in the slums.
A fire broke out in a slum in block C of the Baunia dam adjacent to the Mirpur Kalshi bus stop in the capital on Tuesday (November 25) at around 2.15 p.m. As a result, fifty slum houses in Kalshi were reduced to ashes.
Locals claim the fire started in the garage of an illegally built battery-powered autorickshaw in the Kalshi slum. They say the autorickshaw is kept in the garage at night on a battery charge. From there, the fire was started through an electrical short and spread.
In the nightly fire in Kalshi’s Baunia Dam slum, everyone rushed to save their lives. These low-income people were unable to save the last of Lelihan’s terrible flames.
The television, the refrigerator, two cabinets, two beds, chairs and tables and all the household goods in the house of Shukkur Ali, a Pukurpar resident of the Baunia dam, have been reduced to ashes. Lead the family by running the minibus. I bought the fridge in installments several days ago. Now there is no fridge, however you have to carry the load of the fridge.
Mamtaz Begum, a resident of the slum, had deposited 10,000 rupees for her son’s university exams. The fire woke him up at night when he heard screams of fire. Mumtaz ran out of the house with the little boy on his lap. In the fire, the rice, the vegetables of the house and the money from the son’s test were reduced to ashes.
After inspecting the fire site, Dhaka-17 MP Ilias Uddin Mollah said that the Kalshi slum had caught fire a year and a half ago. The same place caught fire again. We have received information that the fire in the autorickshaw garage spread to the slums.
Previously, fires broke out in a seven-story slum on May 15, 2015 around 5:15 a.m., on December 11, 2016 around 1 a.m., and on December 26, 2019 around 1:15 a.m. pm 11 fire service units took an hour to put out the fire in 2019. Hundreds of houses in the slums were also burned in the fire. The fire started that day in a bhangari shop next to the slum. Even then, slum dwellers complained that the neighborhood conspiratorially caught fire.
Bangladesh time: 1344 hours, November 28, 2020
SJA / YES
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