Chittagong Bureau :
A girl was burnt to death as a fire broke out in her tin-shed house in Madyam Sonaichhari Shitalpur area of Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong on Thursday night. The fire originated from a mosquito coil when Sanjida Begum, 8, daughter of Badsha Mia, was sleeping alone inside the house as her parents went outside locking her inside. The fire also spread to a nearby grocery shop and a tea-stall and caused a damage of Tk 80,000, said fire officials. Fire fighters doused the fire after an hour long effort.
Meanwhile in Rangpur city, a tin-shed one-storey cotton factory of Jahangir Hossain was gutted by a fire at Alamnagar beside Rangpur Railway Station early yesterday.
A girl was burnt to death as a fire broke out in her tin-shed house in Madyam Sonaichhari Shitalpur area of Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong on Thursday night. The fire originated from a mosquito coil when Sanjida Begum, 8, daughter of Badsha Mia, was sleeping alone inside the house as her parents went outside locking her inside. The fire also spread to a nearby grocery shop and a tea-stall and caused a damage of Tk 80,000, said fire officials. Fire fighters doused the fire after an hour long effort.
Meanwhile in Rangpur city, a tin-shed one-storey cotton factory of Jahangir Hossain was gutted by a fire at Alamnagar beside Rangpur Railway Station early yesterday.
