When one enters the building of Sharif Market on Chittaranjan Avenue in Sadarghat, there is a feeling of suffocation, despite the empty spaces between the eight-storey building. The building has been identified as risky in terms of fire safety. However, it only has nine fire extinguishers.
Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence today formed a five-member probe committee to identify the cause of Saturday's fire at Dhaka New Super Market.
The massive fire that broke out at the capital's New Super Market, adjacent to Dhaka College, around 5:40am on Saturday morning (15 April) has been completely doused. The Fire Service and Civil Defence were able to extinguish the blaze, that devastated the three-storey building housing some 1,300 shops, at around 9am on Sunday (16 April) – some 27 hours after the fire had
Just 11 days after a blaze ripped through the Bangabazar shopping complex, another one yesterday gutted Dhaka New Super Market, causing losses to businesses and traders.