A massive fire is blazing in Dhaka’s Gulshan-1, ripping through the DCC Market and making a third of the two-storey building to collapse in a heap.
bdnews24.com Chief News Photographer Mostafigur Rahman said from the scene at 7:45am on Tuesday that flames were tearing through the portion that chiefly houses food, cosmetics, and crockeries shops.
The kitchen market portion on the Gulshan-1 Circle side of the market has been burnt down.
Fire crew frantically try to douse the fire ravaging DCC Market in the capital’s Gulshan-1 on Tuesday. bdnews24.com Senior Photographer Mostafigur Rahman clicked the photo at 4:30am.
Six persons were rescued unharmed from the market, Fire Service Control Room official Palash Chandra Modok told bdnews24.com.
He said at 7:45am that 22 units were trying to tame the flames that sent clouds of smoke high above the upscale locality. Palash could not say what had caused the fire or whether anyone was burnt. Earlier he said the fire broke out around 2:30am even though some accounts say it started around 1am.
Fire crew frantically try to douse the fire ravaging DCC Market in the capital’s Gulshan-1 on Tuesday. bdnews24.com Senior Photographer Mostafigur Rahman clicked the photo at 4:30am.
Mostafigur said the firefighters were trying to control the raging flames, which may spread to Gulshan Shopping Centre at Gulshan-1 Circle.
There was no immediate report of casualties, Mostafigur said. The sobbing shop owners and keepers, who rushed to the scene hearing the news, were helping the firefighters. Abu Taleb Babul, the market committee president, told the media that it was an act of sabotage. Another shop trader had earlier said the fire was started deliberately.
Fire crew frantically try to douse the fire ravaging DCC Market in the capital’s Gulshan-1 on Tuesday. bdnews24.com Senior Photographer Mostafigur Rahman clicked the photo at 5:15am.
“Some people came and took down the numbers of shops around 2am yesterday (Monday)…They might have set fire to the market by exploding a power transformer,” Babul said.
Angry traders, counting the cost of ‘terrifying’ blaze, attacked fire crew at around 4:40am after they said they had run out of water. Several firefighters were injured in the incident, leaving the operation momentarily suspended. Later, the firemen and shopkeepers removed a number of gas cylinders stored behind the kitchen market.
A shop owner breaks into sobs as he watches fire engulfing the DCC Market at Gulshan-1 in the capital on Tuesday. bdnews24.com Chief News Photographer Mostafigur Rahman took the photo at 5:15am.
Booming sounds were being heard. Mostafigur said it is suspected that the food and cosmetics cans were exploding.
The shops that sell furniture were not affected until 7:45am. He also said the firefighters were using gas masks as the smoke from the doused fire made it difficult to breathe Source : Bd News 24
