Three shopping stores catch fire in two days

The fire broke out at curtain shop called ‘Porda Bilash’ on the ground floor in Monipur around 8:30am yesterday in a building that has no fire exit. A fire service official said the blaze spread quickly to the shop’s second unit on the first floor. Six firefighting units put out the flame at around 9:35am, fire service headquarters Duty Office Atikul Alam Chowdhury said. Police identified the victim as Mamun, an employee of real estate company Isamoti, located on the building’s third floor. “He died of asphyxiation,” Mirpur police Inspector (investigation) Sazzah Hossain told the Dhaka Tribune. The cause of the fire and the extent of damage could not be known immediately. Fire at Bashundhara A fire also broke out on the sixth floor of the Bashundhara shopping centre Sunday morning. It took a total of 29 fire engines and 10 hours to put out the fire. There were no reported casualties. Fire Services has formed a five member committee to find out the cause of the fire within seven days. Bashundhara shopping mall marketing head Jasim Uddin said: “Bashundhara will form separate inquiry committee to find the cause of the fire.” They have plans to reopen the mall on Wednesday except the block that was damaged by the fire. Abdul Alim, deputy director of Fire Service and Civil Defence said : “The fire has been doused but there still a lot of smoke which we are working on at the moment.” Fire at Mouchak Market Another fire broke out yesterday at Golden Food Shop on the ground floor of Mouchak Market at around 5:55pm. The fire was doused within 10 minutes, said Kayum an employee of the shop. Eliyas Sarker ownder of Riya Fashon said he quickly grabbed the fire extinguisher put the fire out. Fire Service and Civil Defence headquarter telephone operator Mohammad Joy confirmed that three units had rushed to the market but the fire was already put out by the time they reached.