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Fire breaks out at Dhaka’s Topkhana road building
Fire - representational image.
Dhaka, Jan 21 - A fire that broke out on the top floor of a high rise building in Dhaka’s Topkhana Road earlier this morning is now under control.
Rashid Bin-Khalid, duty officer of Fire Service and Civil Defence (FSCD) headquarters media cell, said the fire originated from the top floor of the 13-storey ‘Merherban Plaza’ on Topkhana Road around 7:33 am.
Responding to call, four firefighting units from several stations rushed to the spot and tamed the blaze around 8:15 am, he said.
The origin of the fire and damages caused by it could not be known immediately, the duty officer added.
Yesterday morning, a fire broke out on the ground floor of a six storey building in Dhaka’s Chawkbazar area, though firefighters tamed the blaze later. - UNB