48 city shops gutted
Staff Correspondent
At least 48 shops were gutted in a fire at a market at city's Maddhya Badda in the early hours of yesterday.Fire broke out from electric short circuit at the back of tin- and wooden- shed Khan Super Market in Pragati Sarani road at around 12:05am. Eight units of fire brigades from different fire stations in the city doused the fire at 1:35am. A total of 48 shops containing readymade garment, sari, cosmetics and cookeries were completely burnt, fire brigade sources said. Shop owners claimed that the losses were estimated at around Tk 1 crore. No goods of the shops of the market could be saved as fire spread all over the market in a moment, the shop owners said.
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