Fire broke out at two factories, Shamim Spinning Mills Ltd at Nishchintopur area and Northern Fashion Ltd at Baroipara, in separate incidents in Gazipur yesterday. However, no casualties were reported.
Witnesses said, a fire erupted at the thread warehouse of Northern Fashion Ltd at around 5:30am on Friday. Later, two units from Kaliakoir fire station and two units from adjacent Savar EPZ fire station rushed to the spot and took the fire under control after two and half hour effort.
Sub Inspector Md Shah Alam of Gazipur Industrial police said the factory claims around 170 tonnes of thread, worth around Tk3.5 crore, were gutted in the fire.
On early hours of Friday, a fire broke out at the blower room of Shamim Spinning Mills Ltd following an electric short-circuit. After the fire spread out of control, two units from Kaliakoir fire station rushed to the spot and doused the fire.