The fire with huge smoke broke out on the first floor of the four-storied building housing the factory named Welcome Industry at 1:00pm forcing workers to run in panic. The fire has lasted for two hours.

No casualties, however, were reported in the incident.

Fire fighters doused the fire at 3:00pm.

Production in the factory has remained suspended for rest of the day.

Scotch tape, raw materials to manufacture scotch tape and machineries of the factory were gutted in the fire. Factory authorities could not estimate the loss as of filing this report last night.

"The fire might have originated from an electric short circuit somewhere on the first floor of the factory building," said Sub-inspector Ali Hossain of Shyampur Police Station.