A fire broke out in a slum in the Chand Udyan area adjacent to the embankment in Mohammadpur on Tuesday.
Two units of the Fire Service are working to bring the blaze under control.
The Fire Service received the report at around 1:35pm on Tuesday.
Confirming the incident, Fire Service control room duty officer Rafi Al Faruq said: “We received information in the afternoon about a fire in tin-shed houses in the Chand Udyan area near the Mohammadpur embankment. Two units from the Mohammadpur Fire Station were dispatched immediately and began efforts to control the fire.”
The cause of the fire has not yet been determined.
No reports of casualties or the extent of damage were available at the time of filing this report.