Gendaria
Fire in Dhaka’s Gendaria area doused
A fire broke out in Dhaka’s Gendaria area early today. Ten shops and a rickshaw garage were on fire.
The blaze started at around 4:20 am in the morning, said Anwarul Islam, warehouse inspector of Fire Service and Civil Defense headquarters' media cell.
The first unit of the fire service reached the spot around 4:30 am.
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Four units from Sutrapur and Postagola fire stations rushed there and doused the flame at around 5:40 am.
No injury or casualty was reported.
The origin of the fire could not be known yet.
Ahmed Shafi no more
Allama Shah Ahmed Shafi, the rector of Hathazari Madrasa and chief of Hefazat e Islam, breathed his last in a hospital in the capital on Friday evening, within 24 hours of resigning from his post at Hathazari in the face of student protests.