At least 200 shanties were destroyed when a fire tore through two slums in the capital's Banani T&T area early Saturday.
Rasel Shikder, duty officer of Fire Service and Civil Defence headquarters, said that the fire broke out at Godown slum and Bede slum around 3:30am.
Twenty-two firefighting units rushed to the spot and extinguished the fire around 7:00am, UNB reported.
A four-member committee led by Nur Hossain, deputy director of Fire Service and Civil Defence, has been formed to look into the incident and estimate the damage, he said.
It is still unclear what sparked the fire.
