A major fire has broken out at a factory of Drug International Pharmaceuticals in Tongi, Gazipur. Twenty fire service units are now working to bring it under control, with extra units sent because of the intensity of the blaze.
Firefighters from Gazipur City Corporation and the army are also helping to put it out. Two workers were reported injured while hurrying to get out when news of the fire spread among the workers across the factory at about 10:30am on Wednesday.
One of the injured has been named as Sadek Hossain, 38, a worker at the factory; the identity of the other has not been confirmed. Sadek was treated at Dhaka Imperial Hospital in the Hossain Market area of Tongi.
Police and local people said the fire broke out suddenly at about 10:30am on Wednesday on the fourth floor of the Drug International pharmaceutical factory (Unit 2). Within moments it spread to the raw materials used to make medicines and around the factory, and two people were hurt in the rush to get out. Three units from Tongi fire station reached the spot first and tried to bring the fire under control. Ten more units from Uttara and Kurmitola in Dhaka and from Gazipur later joined them.
Seven more units then joined the effort. Shahin Alam, a senior official at Tongi fire station, said the fire started at 10:30am on the fourth floor of the factory’s four-storey building and quickly spread to the raw materials for making medicines. A total of 13 units, three from the fire service among them, reached the spot and were working to bring it under control, along with firefighters from Gazipur City Corporation and the army. Two people had been reported injured. “We are doing our utmost to bring the fire under control,” he said. “The cause of the fire and the extent of the damage can be told only after an investigation.”
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