Three suffer burns in RK Tower fire

At least three people suffered burn injuries in a fire that broke out at RK Tower, a commercial high-rise building in the city’s Banglamotor, on Saturday.

The injured are Mamun Khan, 31, office assistant, Tafsir Mia, 26, and Manik Fakir, 20, workers of a toy importing company named Rabeya Enterprise in the building.

The fire broke out on the 7th floor of the 10-storey building around 12.15pm and spread soon.

The fire came under control around 2 pm and it was completely doused at 4:20 pm by eight firefighting units, said Rozina Akter,Duty officer of the Dhaka Fire Service and Civil Defense control room.

The injured are currently being treated at Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery under Dhaka Medical College Hospital.

Injured Mamun suffered 34 per cent burns, Tafsir seven per cent and Manik three percent burns, said SM Ayub Hossain, resident surgeon of the institute.