Police recovered the body of a man from the city's Lalbagh police station area on Friday. The identity of the deceased, aged around 35, could not be ascertained immediately, said police. Nuton Miah, sub-inspector (SI) of Lalbagh police station, said they found the man lying unconscious near the BGB-2 gate around 11:15am. Later, they took him to Dhaka Medical College and Hospital where doctors declared him dead around 12:20pm, the SI added. The body has been kept at the hospital morgue for an autopsy, SI Nuton Miah said.

A fire that broke out at a plastic factory in the city's Lalbagh area around noon on Friday has been doused, officials said. The fire started around 12pm at the tin-shed factory in the Shahid Nagor Bou Bazar area. “Twelve fire tending units were pressed into service and it took them an hour and a half to contain the flames,” said Md Shahjahan Shikdar, deputy assistant director (media cell) of Fire Service and Civil Defence. READ: 6 dead in India pharma factory fire "The firemen doused the flames completely around 3:45pm," he added. Fortunately, no casualties were reported. "The origin of the fire will be known after a probe," the officer said.

As in every year, the workers of Lalbagh rawhide market in the capital are in the midst of their busiest period following Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of Muslims that results in a large number of sacrificial animal hides.   

A fire broke out at Gazi Tower in Posta Dhal area in Dhaka's Lalbagh area on Thursday night.