A devastating fire razed several hundred shanties in Sat Tala Slum in Dhaka’s Mohakhali area to the ground in the early hours on Monday.
Fire service duty officer Lima Khanam told The Business Post that the fire started in the slum about 4:00am.
The fire was brought under control by 18 units of the service around 6:30 am, she said.
The extent of damage and reason for the fire could not be known immediately and there has been no report of casualties so far, said the fire service official.
The incident of fire is frequent in the slum, where thousands of low-income people live.
According to a study by International Breastfeeding Journal, Sat Tala slum has nearly 6500 households.
About 500 to 600 shanties were turned to ash in a fire in the same slum in November 2020. Earlier in December 2016, more than 100 shanties were burned in another fire at the same slum.
At least 32 shanties were destroyed and some people were injured in a fire at this slum in May 2015, according to reports.
