Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has allocated a total of Tk 9 crore as Eid gift for the shop owners, traders and workers affected by the massive fire at the Bangabazar Shopping Complex on April 4.
Police are investigating whether Tuesday's fire at Bangabazar Shopping Complex was the result of a conflict between traders over construction of a multi-storeyed building at the complex.
Traders are now relocating their goods from Annexco Tower, a building that was affected by the fire that burnt the Bangabazar Shopping Complex to the ground yesterday.
The fire that has been raging for more almost six hours at the capital's Bangabazar originated in a shop at Adarsha Market, a market under the Bangabazar Shopping Complex, witnesses said.
The devastating fire at the Bangabazar Shopping Complex may have burnt more than Tk 1,000 crore worth of investment into ashes, said the president of the Bangladesh Dokan Malik Samity, the apex trade body of shop owners.