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4 killed in multi-storey building fire at Shahjadpur

DHAKA, March 3, 2025 (BSS) - A devastating fire that broke out in a six-storey building in the city's Shahjadpur area, leaving four people dead, was brought under control this afternoon.

One of the deceased was identified as Miron, 45. 
 
The fire that originated at 12:17pm today on the second floor of the building, having a women beauty parlor, was brought under control at 13:04pm by two fire fighting engines, assistant director of the Fire Service and Civil Defence Kazi Nazmuzzaman told a news briefing at the fire site. 

Four people died in the fire due to suffocation from smoke, he said, adding that they recovered the bodies from the staircases and a toilet on the sixth floor of the building and were handed over to police. 

Soon after the fire broke out, smoke engulfed the entire building and the residents of the hotel tried to reach sky parlor of the building, but they could not do that as the rooftop gate was locked and they died of suffocation, he said. 

They could have survived from the fire had the smoke came out of the building through the windows of the staircases, he said, adding that but the windows were closed with glasses. 

He said that building was not built following the plan of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) as well as the fire safety rules. 

"The building was not built as per the RAJUK-approved plan. There was no fire safety plan and fire safety measures in the building. It has a narrow staircase, which is only three feet wide and the windows with stair were closed with glasses for which the smoke could not come out," he said. 

The building has a hardware shop on the first floor, a beauty parlor for women on the second and a residential hotel from the third floor to sixth floor, he said. 

The cause of the fire and extent of damage could not be ascertained without investigation, he said, adding that an investigation committee will be formed to probe the incident.