A fire at a slum gutted at least 50 shanties in the city’s Tejgaon Shilpanchal area yesterday afternoon.
Sources at the fire service control room said the fire originated around 4:32pm at a shanty of a slum besides BG Press School and engulfed other shanties.
Ten fire-fighter units went to the spot and brought the fire under control around 5:12pm.
Assistant Director (Dhaka district) of Fire Service Masudur Rahman Akand said the fire might have originated due to a electric short circuit. The flame was doused around 6:30pm.
No causality was reported in the fire incident, AD Masudur Rahman added.
Meanwhile, 30 shanties were burned down in the city’s Mohammadpur after a fire broke out at a slum next to Dhaka Udyan Housing early yesterday.
The fire originated from a shanty and then spread to some other small makeshift houses one after another around 1:20am.
Being informed, six fire fighting units went to the spot and doused the flame around 3:35am.
Contacted, Farid Uddin, duty officer of fire service control room, said the shanties were built illegally on the land of Water Development Board. However, no causality was reported.