DHAKA, April 25, 2021 (BSS) – Another victim of the Armanitola chemical warehouse fire succumbed to his fatal injuries at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery (SHNIBPS) hospital here, raising the death toll from the blaze to five.
“Another Armanitola fire victim Shafayet Hossain, 28, who was on life support at the intensive care unit (ICU), died at 8:45 am . . . The death toll now rose to five till date,” SHNIBPS’s resident physician Dr Partha Sankar Pal told BSS today.
He added more 19 people are undergoing treatment with serious burn injuries as three of them are in the ICU of the hospital.
On April 23, a devastating fire broke out at the ground floor of a six-storey building in the Old Dhaka at 3:15am on Friday last, killing four people, including a woman and a security guard and injuring 22 others, including three firemen.
The fire fighters brought the blaze at “Haji Musa Mansion” under control at about 6:00am on the day.
Locals said due to the fire, the inmates of the building got trapped in their apartments from the first floor of the six-storey building as there was a chemical warehouse at its ground floor.
The fire service with the help of all concerned managed to rescue the trapped people by cutting grills of the apartments.
Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Bangshal police station Shahin Fakir said earlier a case was lodged in connection with the fire on Friday night.
Seven to eight people named, including the owner of the building Mostak Ahmed, were sued along with others 15 to 20 unnamed on charge of causing the deaths over the negligence and keeping illegal chemical substances in the residential building, the OC added.
Meanwhile, Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Begum Mahmuda Akhter accepted the statement of the case and fixed June 10 for the submission of investigation report of the case.
Earlier, a four-member investigation committee into the fire incident was formed.
Headed by fire service and civil defense Deputy Director Noor Hasan, the committee has been asked to submit its report within the next 10 working days.