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At least 30 shops were destroyed in a fire that broke out in the country’s largest clothing market at Sheikherchar-Baburhat in Narsingdi in the early hours of Sunday.
“The accumulated financial loss due to the fire so far could not be ascertained accurately but the affected businessmen primarily assumed a loss of Tk 100 million due to the fire," said Shimul Mohammad Rafi, Deputy Assistant Director of the Narsingdi Fire Station.
Local people and fire service sources said the deadly fire likely erupted from an electric short circuit around 1.15 am at Zia Uddin Market and engulfed the adjacent area. A total of nine fire extinguisher engines from Narsingdi, Madabdi and Dhaka rushed to the spot in phases and brought the fire under control by 3:00 am.
About 30 shops were ablaze, and most of those were selling quilts and curtain-related clothes.
Being informed, six fire engines instantly from the Narsingdi Fire Station rushed to the spot and started to bring the fire under control and then the other three units from the capital also joined with them and brought the fire under control.
The market is known as the largest clothing market in the country and has nearly 3,500 shops, said M Maniruzzaman, general secretary of the Sheikherchar-Baburhat Market Banik Samity.
Narsingdi district administrator Dr Badiul Alam, police super Mohammad Mostafizur Rahman and other district officials visited the spot immediately after the incident.
On October 30, 2023, another devastating fire broke out in the market and 80 shops were gutted.