Fire burns sugarcane fields
Sugarcane on at least 150 bighas was destroyed in a fire at Putimari Beel at Namotola village in Shibganj upazila yesterday. Police arrested a local honey collector, identified as Nazrul Islam, 50, of Laxmipur-Sardar Para under Taraganj upazila in Rangpur, in this connection. Shibganj police and locals said that the man went to Putimari Beel in the morning for collecting honey from a honeycomb with the help of smoke. But suddenly, a sugarcane filed caught fire which swiftly engulfed the other fields destroying canes on around 150 bighas of land.
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