Fire breaks out at Dhaka court

A fire broke out on the ground floor of a Dhaka court yesterday afternoon.

The fire originated around 1:15pm at the Chief Judicial Magistrate's Court in Old Dhaka, witnesses said.

A total of six firefighting units managed to bring the blaze under control around 2:15pm, said an official of Fire Service and Civil Defence control room.

Meanwhile, another fire broke out at a garment factory in Dhaka's Shyampur area yesterday morning.

It took five firefighting units around an hour to douse the blaze, which started around 11:15am, said Khaleda Yeasmin, duty officer of Fire Service and Civil Defence headquarters.

The cause of both fires could not be known yet.