Staff Reporter :
A doctor died after falling sick while trying to rush out of a building in panic following fire scare in the city’s Motijheel area on Monday morning.
The deceased was identified as Prof SM Shahnewaz Bin Tabib, 55.
He was former director of the Institute of Child and Mother Health at the city’s Matuail. Shahnewaz hailed from Khulna and lived at Ramna area in the capital.
An overhead electric wire in front of Hadi Mansion caught fire around 11:45pm spreading panic among occupants of the building, said Motijheel Police Station’s Assistant Sub-Inspector Mamun Hossain.
Fire Service control room officer Enayet Hossain said that their four units put out the flames immediately after reaching the spot.
“As smoke engulfed the building, all the people from the second and third floors tried to rush out. Shahnewaz fell sick while climbing down the stairs from the third floor,” he said.
Doctors at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) declared him dead at around 1:15pm after he was taken there, said the ASI.
Shahnewaz’s driver ‘Shipon’ said that he was waiting outside the building for the doctor who went inside a bank on that floor. Later, after the fire broke out, he saw people carrying an unconscious Shahnewaz out of the building.
Shahnewaz’s brother-in-law Mirza Tarekul Qader said they will not ask for an autopsy.
A doctor died after falling sick while trying to rush out of a building in panic following fire scare in the city’s Motijheel area on Monday morning.
The deceased was identified as Prof SM Shahnewaz Bin Tabib, 55.
He was former director of the Institute of Child and Mother Health at the city’s Matuail. Shahnewaz hailed from Khulna and lived at Ramna area in the capital.
An overhead electric wire in front of Hadi Mansion caught fire around 11:45pm spreading panic among occupants of the building, said Motijheel Police Station’s Assistant Sub-Inspector Mamun Hossain.
Fire Service control room officer Enayet Hossain said that their four units put out the flames immediately after reaching the spot.
“As smoke engulfed the building, all the people from the second and third floors tried to rush out. Shahnewaz fell sick while climbing down the stairs from the third floor,” he said.
Doctors at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) declared him dead at around 1:15pm after he was taken there, said the ASI.
Shahnewaz’s driver ‘Shipon’ said that he was waiting outside the building for the doctor who went inside a bank on that floor. Later, after the fire broke out, he saw people carrying an unconscious Shahnewaz out of the building.
Shahnewaz’s brother-in-law Mirza Tarekul Qader said they will not ask for an autopsy.
