The fire broke out at the Chakrabarty area in Gazipur city early on Thursday, said Abdul Hamid, senior station officer of EPZ Fire Service and Civil Defence in Savar. No casualties were reported as of yet, the EPZ fire station said. "The fire originated from a house inside the colony owned by Anwara Begum, and soon engulfed the adjacent houses," said Hamid. Televisions, refrigerators and other household materials in those 182 houses also burned, Hamid said. The cause of the blaze and the total loss in the fire has yet to be determined, fire service officials said.

Source: bd News24 December 27, 2018 07:18 UTC