A fire broke out at a building in the Dilkusha commercial area of Motijheel in Dhaka around Tuesday morning. However, no major casualties were reported in the incident.
The fire service control room official, Nilufer Yasmin, said the 18-storey Dilkusha Centre caught fire at about 11:00am and eight fire fighting units rushing to the spot took the fire under control in 35-40 minutes.
The fire service acting director general, Md Jihadul Islam, said the fire originated from electric and dish cables on the ground floor and it spread quickly as the cables were inflammable.
The reason behind the fire could not be identified immediately, he added.
However, the building lift operator, Humayan Kabir, said he saw that the cable was aflame from fire of welding.
The acting DG informed that there was no emergency exit inside the building and he also blamed the building design saying the stair was very narrow and structurally poor.
Several hundred people work in 76 offices housed at the building.
Panic spread among the people working there in different offices and some even got hurt in the crowd.
The staff ran out of the building hearing the fire alarm.
The extent of damage could not be known immediately.
-With New Age input
