Three employees of an event management firm died in a multi-storey building at Bijoy Nagar in Dhaka early Saturday.
Minarul Sheikh, 25, and Yakub, 25, of Sirajganj, and Rahat, 32, of Jamalpur, who died in the fire, were asleep in their office, Step Media Limited, on the fifth floor of Skylark Point when the fire broke out about 4:30am.
Fire fighters said that the fire originated from an electric short circuit and spread to the fifth and the sixth floor of the 12-storey building.
Step Media’s manager marketing Forkan Fakir said that the fire had broken out in the accounts section of the firm.
Twelve fire engines put out the flames in two hours about 7:00am.
The bodies were sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital and were handed over to Anjumane Mafidul Islam in the afternoon.
The fire fighters estimated that the loss might be worth about Tk 20 lakh.
Forkan said that all important documents — a cheque for Tk 35 lakh signed by Grameemphone and the copy of a memorandum of understanding signed with Banglalink — were also burnt.
-With New Age input
