20160122 Bangladesh Fire at Siddhirganj power plant construction site
Bangladesh Jan 23 2016 “Other”
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Fire at Siddhirganj power plant construction site
Updated: 2016-01-23-14:31
An office of a Spanish firm at a power plant construction site in Narayanganj has been gutted in a fire.
The blaze on Friday night burnt down the first floor of the two-storey office of the Spanish company, Isolux that got the contract for building the 335-megawatt Combined Cycle Power Plant in Siddhirganj.
Six fire fighting units managed to douse the flame after one and a half hours of frantic efforts, said Deputy Assistant Director Masudur Rahman Akon of Fire Service and Civil Defence.
Journalists were not allowed inside the compound.
All the files and documents kept on the first floor were burnt to ashes, according to Akon.
But this would not cause any major problem as all the data were already stored in the computer server, claimed Project Director Nazmul Alam.
The fire was believed to have been sparked by an electric short-circuit.
The authorities closed down the Narayanganj-Adamjee EPZ-Demra road for traffic for about one and a half hours following the fire.
The power plant is scheduled to start production from April, the project director told bdnews24.com.
Thirty-two Spanish, four Argentine and two Indian engineers used to work at the construction site. But the Argentine and the Spanish engineers left the country citing security concerns after the murders of an Italian national in Dhaka and a Japanese citizen in Rangpur last year. Some of them returned to work last December.
There are already four power plants in operation in Siddhirganj. They are 210mw Thermal Power Plant, 170mw Peaking Power Plant, 100mw Quick Rental Power Plant and 100mw Dutch-Bangla Power Project.
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