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Dhaka: Witnesses said the fire started at a grocery store called the Ujjwal Store in the seven-story Mohakhali slum in the capital.
The fire started at 11:48 p.m. Monday (Nov. 23).
Subsequently, 12 units of firefighters controlled the fire at 12:55 pm. Eleven units of the fire service participated in the fire control.
Meanwhile, Lt. Col. Zillur Rahman, director (operations and maintenance) of the Fire Department and Civil Defense, told reporters that a committee would be formed to investigate the fire.
On Tuesday (November 24) afternoon, the slum market tea shop of the Mohakhali seven-story mosque. Farooq Hossain told banglanews that on Monday (November 23) at 12:45 p.m. M. I saw smoke coming out of the luminous tent on the right side of my tent. So I was getting ready to close the store. Later, four people, including me, tried to put out the fire in that store. But I couldn’t put out the fire. Within 10 minutes, the fire spread to nearby slums and stores. I think the fire was caused by an electrical short. Never before has fire spread so fast.
“My own house caught fire while trying to put out the fire in the store,” he said. I couldn’t get anything out of the house. But nothing happened in my tea shop. I couldn’t find my wife and son after the fire broke out in the slum. Later, around 4pm, I found my wife and son in the Niketan area.
“Four days ago, I borrowed Rs 32,000 from someone to buy products for the store,” he said. I kept that money under the mattress in the house. In the morning I went to the burned house and saw that everything had been reduced to ashes.
Another trader in the market. Sohag told banglanews that he closed his store and went home and received the news that my store was on fire. I ran immediately. I tried to open the shop blind but couldn’t open it due to fire. It also had two stores. My younger brother and I used to shop together. My shop had goods worth around six lakh rupees, all burned to ashes. There was 30,000 rupees in cash in the store, but it burned down.
When asked how the fire started, Sohag said the fire started at a grocery store next to my store. The store has been closed for the past four days. The fire destroyed 150 houses and between 28 and 30 stores in the poor neighborhood. The burned stores included kitchens, cosmetics, rice, tea shops, grocery stores, shoe sandals, and mobile phone stores.
Sohag further said, I came to this area in 2010 from the town of Patuakhali in Madarbunia. He used to work as a laborer. I live in this area with my parents, brothers and sisters. Our family used to make money from this store. Everything ended in a fire. What will happen to us now? If I get help from the government. Then I’ll open a new store.
Bangladesh time: 2133 hours, November 24, 2020
MMI / RIS
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