Smoke rises into the sky above the town after a fire broke out at Rupnagar slum area in of shanties have been razed to the ground, leaving thousands homeless, in a massive fire at the Shialbari Jhilpar Slum in Rupnagar area at Mirpur 6, Dhaka. After the fire broke out around 9:45am on Wednesday, some 150 firefighters of 25 firefighting units worked for nearly three hours to put out the flames around 12:30pm. Confirming the development, Fire Service and Civil Defence Director (Operations) Zillur Rahman told reporters at the scene that no casualty was reported immediately. The cau
Smoke rises into the sky above the town after a fire broke out at Rupnagar slum area in of shanties have been razed to the ground, leaving thousands homeless, in a massive fire at the Shialbari Jhilpar Slum in Rupnagar area at Mirpur 6, Dhaka. After the fire broke out around 9:45am on Wednesday, some 150 firefighters of 25 firefighting units worked for nearly three hours to put out the flames around 12:30pm. Confirming the development, Fire Service and Civil Defence Director (Operations) Zillur Rahman told reporters at the scene that no casualty was reported immediately. The cause of the fire will be known after the investigation.
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