British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Robert Chatterton Dickson paid a visit to Kalyanpur slum in the city on Saturday, where British-Dutch multinational FMCG company Unilever has set up a community toilet -- WASH Centre -- for the 8,000-odd residents in collaboration with an NGO.

The fire occurred at 9pm, said Mahfuz Riven, duty officer of the Fire Service and Civil Defence control room. Ten fire-fighting units brought the fire under control around 11pm, he said.