<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>The devastating fire at Bangabazar market was finally doused on Friday morning, over 75 hours after it broke burning down thousands of shops amid hectic Eid shopping.</b></span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Md Shahjahan Shikdar, deputy assistant director (media cell) of Fire Service and Civil Defence said the last traces of Tuesday's fire was extinguished around 9:30 on Friday.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The massive fire broke out at the Bangabazar Shopping Complex in Dhaka on Tuesday morning, burning several thousand shops, mainly ready-made garment and footwear stores, to ashes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A total of six adjacent markets were also burnt.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Other six markets are--Gulistan Market, AnexK tower, Mohanagar shopping complex, Adarsha market, Banga Islami Market and Barisal Plaza.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As per the Bangladesh Shop Owners’ Association President, the fire damaged over 5,000 shops, resulting in a loss of over Tk15 billion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) formed an eight-member&nbsp; committee to investigate the origin of the fire.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, two cases were filed by police and fire service against 300 unidentified people after angry mob attacked the Fire Service and Civil Defense headquarters saying that firefighters failed to quickly bring the fire under control.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A Dhaka court on Thursday granted a one-day remand to each of three accused in a case over the attack on police and obstruction of government work. UNB</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>