A fire broke out in a shop selling clothes in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, for an unknown reason. The sky was covered with black smoke due to the fire, in which approximately 600 firefighters intervened.
While there was no loss of life in the fire, it was learned that the bazaar and its surrounding workplaces were evacuated. It was stated that the army also participated in the efforts to extinguish the fire, which could not yet be brought under control, and that air and land interventions continued.
In the statement made by local sources, it was stated that there were about 3,000 shops in the bazaar where the fire broke out and many of them became unusable.