Fire at Gulshan-1 kitchen market

A fire broke out at a kitchen market near the DNCC Market in Gulshan- 1 of Dhaka early Saturday.

Twenty units of the fire service and civil defence were working to douse the blaze that broke out around 5:30am, fire service officials said.

A team of Navy also joined the effort to douse the blaze.

However, no causalities have been reported so far.

Fire service officials said 11 of their units started working to control the fire.

The fire erupted from a hotel inside the market, said fire service deputy director Debashis Bardhan around 6:45am.

Earlier on 3 January 2017, another fire broke out at the market at the crack of dawn. Many shops were gutted in the fire. The market was then opened in a makeshift basis.

Local people alleged, the market authorities did not take enough measures to curb such accidents after the 2017fire.

Witnesses, however, said the fire service men reached spot within two minutes of today’s fire.
In another fire in the city's Banani area on Thursday, at least 25 people were killed and over 70 others injured.