bdnews24.com :
A fire that engulfed a multi-storey building at Dhaka’s commercial hub Motijheel has been put out after 14 hours, a fire service official has said.
The cause of the fire remains unclear but no casualty was reported.
Fire Service official Shahjadi Sultana said 13 fire-fighting units managed to put out the flames at about 5:40am on Sunday.
The fire was first reported on the first floor of the six-storey building on Saturday afternoon at the office of Bangladesh Industrial Finance Corporation (BIFC).
Everything except a vault was gutted, Senior Principal Officer
Hasina Jannat told bdnews24.com. “The vault had some loan papers and cheque books. Every other document went up in flames.”
BIFC Chief Financial Officer Ahsanul Bari said they hosted a recruitment test at the office on Saturday. They left around12:45pm.
It quickly spread to the floor above, where offices of the Al Arafah Islami Bank were situated.
A section of the bank’s principal branch, which was on the second floor, was burnt, bank officials said. Its offices on the ground floor were also damaged.
A fire that engulfed a multi-storey building at Dhaka’s commercial hub Motijheel has been put out after 14 hours, a fire service official has said.
The cause of the fire remains unclear but no casualty was reported.
Fire Service official Shahjadi Sultana said 13 fire-fighting units managed to put out the flames at about 5:40am on Sunday.
The fire was first reported on the first floor of the six-storey building on Saturday afternoon at the office of Bangladesh Industrial Finance Corporation (BIFC).
Everything except a vault was gutted, Senior Principal Officer
Hasina Jannat told bdnews24.com. “The vault had some loan papers and cheque books. Every other document went up in flames.”
BIFC Chief Financial Officer Ahsanul Bari said they hosted a recruitment test at the office on Saturday. They left around12:45pm.
It quickly spread to the floor above, where offices of the Al Arafah Islami Bank were situated.
A section of the bank’s principal branch, which was on the second floor, was burnt, bank officials said. Its offices on the ground floor were also damaged.
