Haji Wahed Mansion at Nanda Kumar Lane in Chawkbazar’s Churihatta area of Old Dhaka on Thursday, February 21, 2019 Syed Zakir Hossain/Dhaka TribuneAmong them, 106 are wholesale and retail markets of SadarghatFire Service and Civil Defence has declared a total of 173 commercial and residential buildings in Old Dhaka, including 106 wholesale and retail markets of Sadarghat, at risk of fire hazard. Of these markets, 53 were declared very risky. The fire service representative team has red-marked these hazardous markets and multi-storey buildings. He continued: "Some 173 more such buildings were declared risky within the purview of the Sadarghat fire service. A month after the incident, on March 23, another destructive fire broke out at a paper warehouse in Lalbagh, Old Dhaka.

Source: Dhaka Tribune April 03, 2019 05:01 UTC