Dhaka, Nov 6 —Fire at a wholesale fruit market at Karwan Bazar has gutted four banana and wood apple stores and damaged a tin-shed room.
The fire broke out around 6am on Sunday from a stove in one of the banana wholesale stores. It spread quickly to the adjoining stores and also caught on a tin-shed room above five-storied 'Agomon' hotel, Tejgaon fire officer Mamunur Rashid told bdnews24.com.
"Five fire fighting units managed to douse the flames after nearly two hours of effort around 7.45am."
The wholesale store owners claimed that the fire gutted fruits worth roughly around Tk 1 million. However, there were no casualties, he added.
bdnews24.com
No comments:
Post a Comment