At least two firefighters sustained injuries while dousing a fire that broke out at a building of Bangladesh Jute Mills Corporation (BJMC) in Dhaka's Motijheel area.
The fire on the sixth floor of Adamjee Court Building was brought under control two hours after it started around 1:35pm on Monday, said Rasel Shikder, duty officer at the control room of the Fire Service and Civil Defence headquarters.
The fire was extinguished at around 7:10pm, confirmed Kamrul Hasan, another firefighter at the control room. Total 13 firefighting units worked to douse the blaze.
The injured were immediately taken to a health facility for treatment, he added.
Fire Service Director General (DG) Brig Gen Md Sazzad Hussain told media the cause of the fire and the amount of damage is yet to be determined.
He also said: "There is a warehouse on the seventh floor of the building and the fire may have broken out there. BJMC may know about the ownership of the storehouse."
He added that BJMC officials had evacuated safely.
However, later in the day, BJMC issued a statement claiming that the floor that caught on fire did not have a warehouse but was used for a daycare centre, and facilitated the conference room and research department of the corporation.
A six-member probe body was formed to investigate the fire. The committee has five working days to submit its findings, further read the statement signed by Md Abul Kalam, additional secretary of the Ministry of Textiles and Jute.
A total 24,074 fire incidents were reported across the country in 2019, as compared to 19,642 incidents in 2018, and 18,015 in 2017.
