Fire broke out at two separate spinning mills in Narayanganj and Narsingdhi, and at a hawker's market at Laldighirpar in Sylheton Monday, officials said.
No casualties were immediately reported. Details, however, are still sketchy.
In Narayanganj the fire was reported in the morning at Mita Spinning Mills in Bhulta area of Gawsia.
On information, five firefighting units rushed to the spot around 8:30am and are working to douse the blaze.
No casualties were reported and the cause of the fire and losses from it could not be identified immediately.
In Narsingdhi the fire broke out at Joj Mia Group Spinning Mills at Baganbari of Madhabdi in Narsingdhi Monday morning.
Five firefighting units rushed to the spot at 9:15am and are working to extinguish the fire.
No casualties were immediately reported.
Sylhet fire
The fire at a hawker's market in Sylhet city was doused hours after it ignited.
The fire started around 3:30am at the market. On information, several firefighting units have brought the fire under control after three hours of frantic effort.
No casualties were reported immediately.
Mamun Parvez, duty officer of Sylhet Fire Service Control Room, said 17 firefighting units doused the fire around 6:30am.
The reason behind the fire and the details about damages could not be known immediately, he added.
The tin-shed hawkers' market has around 3,000 shops of cloths. Businessmen feared that their clothes worth Tk crores were gutted by the fire.
Abdus Sobhan, secretary of the market managing committee, claimed that the fire originated from the Bismillah cloth store and gutted around 15-20 shops in the market.
People also looted clothes and valuables during the fire, he claimed. This could not be independently verified.
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