“We are 100 percent sure that the fire originated from chemical, nothing else,” IEB General Secretary Khandker Manjur Morhsed told bdnews24.com on Tuesday. The four-storey building which suffered most damage in the fire has two sections – Wahed Manzil and Wahed Mansion. Fire service officials also found a huge amount of highly combustible materials stashed in the basement of Wahed Manzil. The IEB report blamed the storage of flammables on the first floor of the building for the monstrosity of the fire. Asked how they became certain that the fire originated from the first floor of the Wahed Mansion, former IEB president Md Nurul Huda, who headed the investigation, said they found “direct evidence” of explosion on that floor.

Source: bd News24 March 05, 2019 18:56 UTC