UNB
Huge goods and machinery were gutted in a fire that broke out at a jute factory at Keowa Bazar in Sreepur upazila.
Akteruzzaman, assistant director of Gazipur fire service and civil defence, said the fire originated from breaker card machine-8 of ‘Sarah Composite Mills Ltd’ around 5:45am and soon it engulfed the two godowns.
Jute, jute goods, raw materials and machinery were burned down in the fire.
On information, eight fire-fighting units from Joydevpur, Sreepur and Bhaluka rushed in and brought the fire under control after five hours of frantic efforts.
However, no casualty was reported in the fire.