Firefighters have recovered the bodies of two children from a canal near the scene of the blaze that ravaged two slums in the capital’s Mirpur-14 in the wee hours of Thursday.
The bodies of the children, one aged two-and-a-half-years and the other two-month old, were recovered around 12:00pm on Thursday, said Mahfuz Riben, an officer of the Fire Service control room.
The fire burnt down about 1,000 shanties in two slums near the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed.
The blaze broke out at one of the shanties before spreading throughout the slums, bdnews24 reported citing Fire Service officials.
The slums, consisting of shanties made from bamboo, had sprawled over a government-owned marshland, Bhashantek Police Inspector (Investigation) Shafiqul Islam said.
According to locals, the two slums behind CRP are home to around 0.1 million people. The incident in Mirpur came eight days after a deadly fire in Chawkbazar left at least 69 people dead on February 20.
