Staff Reporter :
Three youths suffered from severe burn injuries, from yet another fire in a scrap-metal shop in old Dhaka’s Chawkbazar area on Saturday afternoon.
The fire originated from the scrap-metal shop in Kamalbagh area around 5:00pm, leaving two workers and younger brother of the shop owner injured, police and officials of Fire Service and Civil Defence said.
Soon after the fire started it engulfed the surrounding areas. Locals rushed to the spot and doused it. The Fire Service and Civil Defence officials primarily suspected that the fire might have originated from an explosion of a gas cylinder.
The injured youths are-Sumon, 32, Nur-e-Alam, 30, and Mohammad Suman, 28,– are now undergoing treatment at the burn unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital, Sub-Inspector Bachchu Mia, in-charge of the hospital unit police outpost said. Of them, Sumon sustained 18 percent burn injuries while Nur-e-Alam 30 percent and Mohammad Suman 26 percent, Bachchu Mia said. The fire incident ocured just 10 days after the fatal fire that broke out at a chemical warehouse in Chawkbazar area of Old Dhaka on Febarury 20, leaving at least 71 people dead.
