Fire guts 2 freezers for storing Covid vaccine jabs
A fire gutted two deep freezers which used to preserve Covid vaccines at the civil surgeon's office in Barguna yesterday morning.
There were no vaccine shots in the refrigerators.
Md Khorshed Alam, station officer of Barguna fire service, said when a pedestrian called the firefighters after he saw smoke coming out of the window of the civil surgeon's office, firefighters rushed to the spot and brought the fire under control.
He said the fire might have originated from an electric short circuit.
Maria Hassan, civil surgeon in Barguna, said the fire gutted the freezers which used to preserve vaccines in the new building. There were no vaccine jabs in the damaged freezers, he added.
He added that the cause of the fire would be further investigated and the loss caused by the fire would be estimated.
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