Published :Monday, 25 January, 2016, Time : 12:00 AM View Count : 18
At least 12 shanties were gutted in a fire at the railway colony in Dhaka's Tejgaon area on Sunday evening. The fire originated around 5:58pm from an earthen stove of a shanty, according to an official of the Fire Service and Civil Defence. On information, eight fire fighting units rushed to the spot and doused the fire around 7:30pm, Inspector Atiqul Alam Chowdhury of Fire Service and Civil Defence headquarters said. No casualty was reported in the fire, he added.