A fire broke out at a garment factory at Nandipara in Madartek in the capital yesterday noon.
A seven-storey building houses the factory, Sicily Garments, on its fifth and sixth floors.
Three people, including two locals in rescue operation, were injured, said witnesses.
No worker was present in the factory during the fire, claimed Jamal Uddin, the factory’s merchandising manager.
Nearly 1,550 people work in the factory, said Shamim Ahmed, general manager (production) of the factory.
Eight firefighting units with the help of locals doused the blaze around 2:00pm, said Md Rafiqul Islam, assistant director of Dhaka Division Fire Service.
The cause behind the fire could not be known immediately.
The storage rooms were almost full of a kind of foams used inside jackets, which were gutted, said Jamal. Also there were around 40 sewing machines, he added.
Earlier on November 24 last year, as many as 112 workers were killed in a deadly fire at Tazreen Fashions in Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital.
Source: The Daily Star
