The fire has been brought under control in the New Super Market (D.) building of Neelkhet New Market in the capital. The fire was brought under control by the life saving force at 9:10 this morning. The officer-in-charge of the media cell of The Life Saving Force, Mohammad Shahjahan Shikder confirmed to the media that the fire was brought under control. Meanwhile, 30 units of fire service reached the spot one by one after receiving the information about the fire and worked to control the fire. A total of 23 people including 12 fire fighters of the fire service were injured while putting out the fire. They were rescued and sent to DMK Hospital for treatment. Meanwhile, Rakibul Hasan, the duty officer in charge of the fire service’s control room, confirmed the matter and told BASS that the fire service came to know about the fire in New Market (New Market) building at 5:38 am on Saturday morning. At 5:43 the first two units from Palashi reached the spot to bring the fire under control. Then 5 units from headquarters, 2 from Palashi, Lalbagh-2, Kalyanpur-2, Tejgaon-3, Hazaribagh-2, Postagolar-2, Demra 2, Sutrapur 1, Mohammadpur 3, Khilgaon-2 and Sadarghat 1 each. 3 units reached the spot and started work to control the fire. Initially, the fire service official could not give any information about the cause of the fire, the amount of damage and casualties. In charge (OC) of police camp of Dhaka Medical College DMK Hospital. Bachchu told Mia Bass that a total of 23 people, including fire fighters, were treated while bringing the fire under control in the New Super Market (D.) building of Neelkhet New Market. Among them are shopkeepers and pedestrians. They suffered from fire smoke and suffocation. Meanwhile, Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) public relations officer said. Shariful Islam told reporters that 12 platoons of BGB arrived at the scene to control the fire in the New Super Market (D.) building of Dhaka New Market. Besides, police, army, navy and air force, RAB and Ansar joined the fire service. On the other hand, at around 10:30 a.m., the director general (DG) of the Fire Service and Civil Defense Directorate Brigadier General Md. Main Uddin said that after about three and a half hours of efforts, the fire in the capital’s New Super Market was brought under control. However, it will take time to completely extinguish the fire as there are flammable materials in the market. He said that the fire came under control around 9:10. A little late for security reasons.
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