A fire broke out at the basement of the 15-storey Capital Siraj Centre Shopping Mall on Bayley Road in Dhaka Monday evening.
Fire Service and Civil Defence deputy assistant director Shahjahan Sikder said that the fire originated at about 6:40pm on Monday.
鈥楴ine firefighting units controlled the fire within an hour and doused it within two hours,鈥� said Shahjahan Sikder.
He said that 18 people, including seven men, nine women and two children聽 were rescued alive from the roof of the building.
Anwarul Islam, warehouse inspector of the FSCD media cell, said that the blaze of the fire could not spread to other floors.
FSCD director for operations and maintenance Lieutenant Colonel Mohammad Tajul Islam Chowdhury said that the building housed shopping mall, restaurants, offices and residential apartments.
鈥楾here were more than 100 people inside the building and all of them are safe,鈥� he said and added that no causality was reported. 聽
On February 29, 2024, a devastating fire broke out at Green Cozy Cottage on Bayley Road that killed 46 people.
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartipakkha formed a seven-member probe committee headed by its member for development control, Mohammad Abdul Ahad, on March 1, 2024 following the fire incident.
The committee was asked to submit the report within seven working days but it took over a month to complete the investigation.
In the probe report, the city development authority blamed Dhaka South City Corporation for issuing trade licences to four restaurants and a business entity without following Rajuk鈥檚 approved design and occupancy certificate.
The report said that the Fire Service and Civil Defence had given clearance to one of these restaurants without checking Rajuk鈥檚 approved design and occupancy certificate.