20151223 Bangladesh Fire destroys over 100 shanties at Tejgaon and Mohammadpur slums ( at Mohammadpur )
Bangladesh Dec 23 2015 “Houses”
Dead : dead 0 or unknown Burnout : 30 to 69 Injured : injured 0 or unknown
Fire destroys over 100 shanties at Tejgaon and Mohammadpur slums
Updated: 2015-12-23-21:16
Over hundred shanties have been gutted in two separate fire incidents in the capital’s Tejgaon and Mohammadpur.
A fire at a slum near Dhaka Udyan at Mohammadpur destroyed at least 30 shanties in the early hours of Wednesday.
“We suspect that an open kerosene lamp at a shanty might have caused the fire in Mohammadpur at around 1:20am,” said Fire Service Control Room official Palash Chandra Modak.
Seven fire-fighting units extinguished the flames after one and a half hours, he added.
No casualties have been reported and the authorities are yet to determine the estimated damage caused by the two incidents.
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