However, additional security measures were taken up in and around the fair venue at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar.

Exhibitors said the number of visitors fell drastically yesterday after a homemade bomb exploded on Mirpur Road Sunday night, a few yards away from Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre.

"After the opening of the fair on December 10, we experience the lowest number of visitors today (Monday)," said Mokhles Ahmed of Johnny Textile Mills Ltd.

"Usually visitors crowd the fair in the evening, but today the visitors are leaving the fair in the evening," said a sales person of Swapan Plastic Door.

She also said no visitor visited her stall while her shop was full of visitors Sunday.