<div style="text-align: justify; "><b style="font-size: 1rem;">Black smoke filled the air as a pre-dawn fire engulfed the New Super Market in the capital, forcing fire service to mobiise 28 of their units at the scene and military, paramilitary and police joining their hands to extinguish the blaze.</b><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fire service officials said the incident was reported to them at about 5.40 am and they immediately sent the units to the scene, one after another, and there had been no reported deaths from the blaze.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">TV footages showed army, navy, air force and paramilitary Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel along with police joined hands to help the fire fighters while businessmen rushed to the market in their apparent futile efforts to save their belongings at the shops.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The fire service could not ascertain immediately what might have caused the fire but the incident came just 11 days after a pre-dawn blaze in a near identical manner broke out and burned several thousand shops at Dhaka’s Bangabazar clothing market.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Bangabazar fire devastated the shop owners by the loss weeks ahead of the Eid since efforts of hundreds of firefighters and army personnel could do little to save their belongings as the inferno tore through the clothing market, turning it into a pile of ashes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The New Super Market today also went up in flames, before the daily businesses had opened. BSS </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>