Firefighters have recovered six bodies from the debris after a fire swept through a building that houses a plastics factory and a restaurant in Old Dhaka's Chawkbazar. The incident in Kamalbagh was reported around 12 pm on Monday, said Md Shahjahan Sikder, assistant director of the fire service. "We found six bodies inside the building," said Anwarul Islam, a fire service official. Rows of plastic factories and warehouses of plastic goods line the narrow alleys of Chawkbazar’s Kamalbagh area. According to locals, a restaurant occupied the ground floor of the four-storey building, while a factory and storage for plastic toys and polythene were on the upper floors.

Source: bd News24 August 15, 2022 17:16 UTC