Fire service on Thursday filed a case against 250-300 unidentified people for the allegations of attacking and obstructing the fire service officials during the devastating fire in Bangabazar last week, reports UNB.
The case was lodged at Bangshal police station in the capital.
Senior Station Officer, Md. Shahin Alam of Siddiqbazar Fire Service and Civil Defense Station, filed the case as the plaintiff.
According to the case statement, some 250 to 300 unidentified people carried out attacks and vandalism on the Fire Service and Civil Defense headquarters when a massive fire broke out at Bangabazar on Tuesday morning.
The plaintiff said some of his colleagues were injured in the attack by the unidentified people when they were barred from damaging government properties.
Earlier on Thursday, the police station’s SI Israfil Hawlader filed the case, accusing 250 to 300 unidentified people in connection with the attack on police and obstruction of government work.
Later in the day, a Dhaka court granted a one-day remand to three accused in a case over the attack on police and obstruction of government work.
The fire at Bangabazar Shopping Complex in Dhaka also spread to some other nearby markets, burning several thousand shops, mainly ready-made garment and footwear stores, to ashes. The blaze made thousands of traders paupers ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr festival.
A total of six adjacent markets were also burnt.
Other six markets are--Gulistan Market, AnexK tower, Mohanagar shopping complex, Adarsha market, Banga Islami Market and Barisal Plaza.
Forty-eight firefighting units took part in extinguishing the blaze.
At least 12 people, including several fire fighters, fell sick while they were extinguishing the blaze that needed more than six hours to be tamed.
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