Bashundhara City shopping mall reopens after fire
Bashundhara City shopping complex reopened today, 10 days after the mall experienced a devastating fire.
The shopping complex has been opened to customers around noon, Jashim Uddin, head of marketing of the shopping mall, told The Daily Star.
Most of the shops are now open, excluding those of C-block on the sixth and seventh floors where the fire damaged the most, he said.
Arif Hossain, a salesman at fashion outlet Monsoon Rain, said they were yet to sell any product since morning. He hoped that the number of buyers will increase in the afternoon, UNB added.
A few visitors were seen roaming around the market complex.
Workers and staff of the markets were seen busy repairing the damage.
The lifts of the building were running while technicians were checking the escalators before their operation.
A few shops of the food court on the eighth floor were found opened and the employees were cleaning those.
On August 21, a devastating fire broke out in the shopping mall when a total of 70 shops out of 100 on level 6 were completely or partially damaged.
Some 150 firefighters, assisted by firemen of Bashundhara City Shopping Mall, doused the flame after nearly nine hours of frantic effort.
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