A fire broke out at a plastic factory in the capital’s Lalbagh area on Friday.
The fire started around 12pm at the tin-shed factory in the Shahid Nagor Bou Bazar area.
Locals try to help firefighters during the fire at a plastic factory in Dhaka’s Lalbagh Friday, April 15, 2022 Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune"Twelve fire tenders and nine firefighting units were pressed into service, and it took them an hour and a half to contain the flames," said Md Shahjahan Shikdar, deputy assistant director (media cell) of Fire Service and Civil Defence.
Firefighters try to douse the blaze at at a plastic factory in Dhaka’s Lalbagh Friday, April 15, 2022 Mahmud Hossain Opu/Dhaka Tribune"The firemen doused the flames completely around 3:45pm," he added.
No casualties were reported so far. "The origin of the fire is yet to be ascertained," the officer said.
