Fire at Sheltech Computer City on Elephant Road under control

A fire that broke out in a nine-storey building in Dhaka's New Elephant Road this evening has been brought under control after two hours.

Ten fire engines immediately rushed to the spot and brought the blaze under control around 9:23pm, said Tajul Islam Chowdhury, director (operations and maintenance) of Fire Service and Civil Defence.

The fire broke out around 7:30pm on the fourth floor of Sheltech Sierra Computer City, said Khaleda Yeasmin, duty officer of Fire Service and Civil Defence.

The cause of the fire could not be known immediately.

Fire Service personnel rescued six people from the building. None of them were injured.

However, two firefighters and one volunteer were injured due to the smoke and heat.

The building houses offices and shops till the fifth floor, and residential apartments for the remaining four.

Sirajul Islam, an employee of a ceramic shop on the ground floor, said they smelled something burning and started looking at different floors and saw flames at a computer shop on the fourth floor.

"We tried to douse the fire using the extinguishers but the blaze started spreading. We then informed Fire Service," he said.