A devastating fire in Chanpur Sadar upazila’s Dakshin Tarpurchandi village burnt to ashes a cotton factory and its warehouse on Wednesday. The factory made cotton from jute fibre. Read: Child burnt to death, 5 hurt in Chattogram fire No casualties have been immediately reported. According to the locals, five peoplec working inside the factory managed to escape to safety soon after the fire broke out. However, the owner of the factory, Billal Mizi fainted and was taken to the district Sadar hospital.   Firefighter Zakir Hossain said that the fire was caused by an electrical short circuit and it spread quickly. Three units of the fire services managed to bring the fire under control at around 3 pm after two and a half hours of effort, he said The owner of the factory, Billal Mizi, and his brother claimed that the initial loss was around Tk 30 lakh. But fire services Deputy Assistant Directors Sahidul Islam and Zakir Hossain said that the amount of loss will be Tk 5 lakh. Read: Fire engulfs chemical warehouse in Chattogram Further investigation would be made, they said. They further said that no permission or approval was taken from the fire services before the construction of this factory and warehouse.

A cotton factory warehouse in the Mongla EPZ was destroyed in a massive fire on Monday morning. The Guangzhou Huasheng Science and Technology Factory’s warehouse caught fire around 4am. Five firefighting units struggled for 12 hours to contain the blaze but by then, goods inside the warehouse had been completely destroyed. It is still unclear what sparked the fire. Neither the EPZ authorities nor the fire service officials could say anything about the cause of the blaze. Bagerhat Fire Service’s Deputy Assistant Director Md Golam Sarowar said the factory staff first saw the fire at the warehouse. Five firefighting units from Bagerhat, Khulna, Mongla port, Navy and EPZ joined hands to put out the fire. “We contained the fire around 4:30pm but the goods at the warehouse had been gutted. Smoke was belching out of the burnt cotton piles. The fire service members are clearing the burnt merchandise,” he said.