News Desk:
Finally, journalists were able to enter the Secretariat. A limited number of journalists were allowed to enter the Secretariat at around 2 pm on Monday (December 30). Earlier, journalists were not allowed to enter the Secretariat since the terrible fire in Building No. 7 on Wednesday night.
The government had announced on Sunday that journalists would be able to enter the Secretariat from Monday through temporary passes. But although the journalists had been waiting at the Secretariat gate since morning to enter, they could not enter the Secretariat. Later, permission was granted to enter the Secretariat at 2 pm.
According to the list provided by the Bangladesh Secretariat Reporters Forum, an organization of journalists covering the Secretariat at that time, a limited number of journalists entered the Secretariat through the space between gates one and two.
Building No. 7, which caught fire on Monday, was also closed. No one except those involved in the investigation is being allowed to enter this building.
No vehicles other than the advisor and the secretary were allowed to enter the Secretariat.
Secretariat officials and employees entered the building on foot through the visitor’s room between gates one and two and gate five.
The inner courtyard of the Secretariat is almost empty as cars are not allowed to enter. Most of the officials’ cars were seen parked on the roads surrounding the Secretariat.
Last Wednesday (December 25) in the night, the biggest fire in history gutted four floors of the Secretariat’s building number 7. There were offices of five ministries on these four floors. The fire broke out shortly before 2 am on Wednesday, and after six hours of effort, the fire service brought the fire under control around 8 am on Thursday. It took about 10 hours to completely extinguish the fire.
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