15 timber shops gutted
At least 15 timber shops were gutted in a fire in Choudhury Ghat area of the city early yesterday. Faridul Islam, an official of Chandpur fire service and civil defence said, at around 4:00am the fire originated either from a mosquito coil or an electric short circuit in a shop and soon engulfed the adjacent 14 shops and a two-storey building. It took almost three hours to douse the flames as there were huge logs in the shops, he added. The loss of property was estimated at Tk 50 lakh.
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