23 furniture shops of a furniture market and four houses were gutted in two separate fire incidents in Baluchara and Bakalia areas in Chittagong city early yesterday.
However, a person, Md Azad, 21 was injured while extinguishing the fire in Bakalia area, said fire service and civil defence sources.
Jasim Uddin, deputy assistant director of Fire Service and Civil Defence Headquarters in Agrabad, said a fire had broken out from an electric short circuit at a thatched furniture market in Baluchara area of Baizid in the city.
Being informed, fire fighters with two units from Agrabad and Baizid fire station rushed to the spot and put out the fire after five hours hectic efforts around 9am, said the DAD.
A total of 22 thatched shops and a semi-pucca shops were gutted in the fire while the extant of losses caused by the fire would be Tk25 lakh, said the fire service official.
