36 houses gutted in Khulna, hostel rooms in Barisal

Four rooms of Debendranath Ghosh Student Hostel adjacent to city's BM College were gutted in a fire on Friday evening. Fire service sources said the fire originated from an electric short circuit at a room of the hostel and soon engulfed three other rooms at about 5:20pm while none was inside the room. On information, fire fighters rushed to the spot and extinguished the blaze with the help of local people. Some 14 students of BM College were residing in those four rooms of the hostel located in Natun Bazaar area. The belongings of the all 14 resident students of the hostel including, clothes, books, academic papers and documents were gutted in the fire. In Khulna, a devastating fire gutted 36 dwelling houses and valuables at the workers colony of an auto-rice mill in Labanchara area of the city Friday afternoon. City's Tutpara Fire Station officer Ariful Haque said the fire originated from the kitchen room of a worker and soon engulfed the other houses of the colony of rice mill of Kazi Sobhan Hossain at about 1:30pm. Three fire fighting units from Tutpara Fire Station rushed to the spot and doused the fire with the help of local people. Ariful Haque said some 33 houses of the colony and three neighboring area houses were gutted by the fire. He said two workers sustained burn injuries while trying to put out the blaze. The extent of loss from the fire was estimated at Tk 12 lakh. Local MP and BNP city unit president Nazrul Islam Manju visited the spot and distributed food and clothes among the fire victims.