At least 250 shops were gutted as a fire broke out in a popular RMG market at Kaliganj in Keraniganj upazila on Sunday night.
Lieutenant Colonel Zillur Rahman, operation officer of Fire Service and Civil Defence, said the fire broke out at a shop of the Nur Supermarket around 11 pm when a nearby transformer went off.
He said the fire spread fast from one shop to another as those were made of corrugated iron sheets.
Ten fire-fighting units from Sadarghat, Keraniganj, Postagola rushed to the spot and extinguished the blaze around 2 am, Zillur Rahman said.