Disaster management and relief adviser Faruk E Azam said on Sunday that there had been a lack of technical knowledge to investigate some issues of a series of recent fire incidents.
He made the comment a day after a massive fire that broke out at Hazrat Shahjajal International Airport in the capital, gutting a section of its cargo village housing imported goods, including raw materials for industries.
The adviser, however, did not elaborate those issues while talking to reporters after presiding over an inter-ministerial meeting on disaster management at the secretariat in the evening.
He told reporters that a seven-member committee headed by home secretary Nasimul Ghani had already been formed to submit a report on the series of fire incidents by November 5.
The fire that broke out at a section of the cargo village at about 2:30pm on Saturday was doused at about 4:50pm on Sunday.
On October 14, a devastating fire in the Shialbari area of the Rupnagar residential zone in the capital鈥檚 Mirpur area killed 16 people after a garment factory and an adjacent chemical warehouse caught fire.
Two days later, a fire at a factory in the Export Processing Zone in Chattogram took 17 hours and 25 firefighting units to bring under control.
Indicating that the number of the committee members may increase to 13 or 14, the adviser said that the reasons behind fire incidents, whether arson or not, would be cleared after receiving the probe report.
There are many technical issues that need to be probed, he said, adding that the committee would submit a credible report.
Thirty-seven units of the firefighters worked to extinguish the fire at the airport cargo village along with the members of the Bangladesh Civil Aviation Authority, Bangladesh Army, Bangladesh Navy, and Bangladesh Air Force.
Answering whether the firefighters delayed to reach the spot, the adviser said the civil aviation authority had its own firefighting system at the airport that might not be sufficient.
