The fire started around 10 pm at a four-storey building owned by Wahid Chairman and spread to four nearby buildings, witnesses said. Many of the nearby buildings housed stores and warehouses with combustible materials. After a transformer exploded the gas cylinders caught fire, the blaze spread to the road and nearby buildings, he said. A committee formed to investigate the fire had even recommended that the unsafe warehouses for chemicals be removed from the area. Two years ago, Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Mohammad Sayeed Khokon had vowed the chemicals warehouses would be relocated from Old Dhaka, but there has been little visible progress on the matter.

Source: bd News24 February 21, 2019 04:18 UTC