Staff Reporter :At least two fire incidents took places in the city’s Mirpur and Mouchak Markets while another at Railway Gate Market in Gaibandha district town on Monday after the Bashundhara City Shopping Mall fire on Sunday.In city’s East Monipur of Mirpur a youth died after inhaling huge smoke caused by fire that engulfed a five-storey building.Police confirmed a 30-year-old youth identified as Mamun Miah, who was first rushed to the Shaheed Suhrawardy Hospital in a critical condition, passed away while he was being taken to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). “Mamun might have died of suffocation as he inhaled huge smoke during the fire,” said Bhuiyan Mahbub Hossain, officer-in-charge of Mirpur Police Station. He said the Mamun was rescued from the third floor of the six-storey building in an unconscious state from inside a carpet and curtain shop that caught fireSix units of fire fighters doused the flames at the shop after their one-hour frantic efforts around 9:50am, Atiqul Islam, an inspector at Fire Service Control Room, said.The Fire Department official could not ascertain the cause of the fire.”The fire broke out at a shop named Parda Bilash on the ground floor of the building at East Monipur in Mirpur-10 around 8:19am. On information, six Firefighting units rushed to the spot and doused the flame around 8:50am,” Atiqul Islam said. Meanwhile, fire also broke out at Mouchak Market at Malibagh in the city on Monday afternoon.According to the Fire Service Control Room, the fire originated at a shop on the ground floor of the market at Malibagh around 5:55 pm from electrical short circuit.However, shop owners and employees managed to douse the flame before three Firefighting units rushed in.Besides capital Dhaka, at least 10 shops were gutted as a fire broke out at Railway Gate Market area in Gaibandha district town on Monday morning.Azizur Rahman, station officer of Gaibandha Fire Station, said the fire broke out at the market around 7:30am.On information, three Firefighting units from Palashbari and Gobindoganj of the district and Pirganj in Rangpur district rushed to the spot and doused the flame around 9:30am.The fire might have been originated from a burning mosquito coil, the official said.The shops’ owners claimed that total estimated loss of the fire was around Tk 30 million.Earlier on Sunday, a fire that broke out at Bashundhara City Shopping Mall in the city’s Panthapath gutted 70 percent shops, out of about 100 in the C block of the fifth floor, were either totally or partially gutted in the fire but it did not spread to other blocks of the floor.
