Goods burnt in garment factory fire
Our Correspondent, N'ganj
Fire gutted huge amount of fabrics and 2.5 lakh pieces of ready-made clothes at a garment factory at Panchabati of Fatullah in Narayanganj yesterday.Sources said the fire originated at about 8:00am in the finishing section on the first floor of the three-storey factory of Majumder Group. Factory workers primarily tried to douse the fire. Later, nine fire-fighting units from Dhaka, Mandalpara and Narayanganj rushed to the scene and managed to extinguish the fire after two hours' effort. No worker was injured in the incident but four workers fainted due to heavy smoke while trying to douse the fire. Narayanganj Fire Station Sub-Assistant Director Golam Mostafa said the fire might have originated from electric short circuit. Locals said vehicular movement on the Dhaka-Munshiganj Highway was suspended for about two hours due to the fire.
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