Fire guts school, 10 shanties in Ctg
A school and ten shanties were gutted in a fire at a slum near railway colony on Ice-Factory road in the port city on Friday night.
Sources in Fire Service and Civil Defence headquarters at Agrabad said the fire had originated from a clay stove of a shanty at around 9:00pm and soon engulfed the other shanties and a Ucep-run school.
Nine fire fighting units rushed to the spot and doused the fire.
The damage was estimated at Tk 12 lakh.
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