An eight-year-old girl died in a fire at a slum in Chittagong city yesterday
The fire occurred around 9:30am, when Nodi, daughter of Md Babu, was sleeping at a thatched house of the slum behind the city’s Bayazid Bostami shrine, said Baizid Bostami Police Station’s Officer-in-Charge Sirajul Islam.
“Firemen rushed to the scene on hearing of the fire and doused it in one and a half hours,” said Fakhruddin Ahmed, a senior officer at Bayazid Bostami Fire Service and Civil Defense Station.
The oven at the house’s kitchen room was the source of the flame, he said.
Fakhruddin, however, could not give any estimation of the financial loss in the fire immediately.
In another fire, owners of two semi-pucca houses lost valuables worth Tk 3,00,000 at Mirsarai Upazila in the Chittagong district.